WISDOM,LET GO OF THE NEED TO CONTROL, TRUST IN THE WISDOM OF A DIVNE PLAN.

Victim recounts alleged Pitcairn abuseSeptember 30, 2004
THE mayor of the tiny British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island, founded by the Bounty mutineers, was the first of seven men to go on trial facing multiple sex-abuse charges.Steve Christian, 53, pleaded not guilty to six charges of rape and four of indecent assault of four women, including one who was 12 at the time of the alleged incident, media on the island reported.
Seven men face 55 charges, including 14 counts of rape, 37 of indecent assault and two of gross indecency. Six other men have yet to be extradited to Pitcairn on 41 more charges.
Mr Christian, who has warned that the trials threatened the island colony's future, is a direct descendant of the infamous Fletcher Christian who led the 1789 mutiny aboard the British navy's HMS Bounty.
A Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reporter, one of six journalists allowed on the island by the British Government, said the Pitcairn Supreme Court opened in a community hall.

Only five people were in the public gallery in Adamstown, the solitary settlement on the 5sq km island east of the international dateline in the South Pacific ocean.
Prosecutor Simon Moore told the court Mr Christian was a prominent and influential figure on the island and committed the offences when he was aged between 13 and 24.
A complainant appearing by video-link from Auckland said that as a young girl, aged either 11 or 12, she had been targeted and raped by Mr Christian four times, once being held down by Mr Christian and two other men, RNZ reported.
The court was told that in interviews with police Mr Christian talked of consensual sex and described one of the complainants as fooling around with everyone.
Pitcairn, 2160km south-east of Tahiti, has a resident population of 47, including 12 able-bodied men. Its survival rests on two longboats which need a minimum of three men each.
Steve Christian, an engineer, dentist and former magistrate, is longboat captain.
At a United Nations decolonisation conference in Fiji in 2002, Mr Christian complained the trials could end island life.
"Individuals and families are being destroyed by the waiting regarding allegations and the situation where families and members within families have been asked to bear witness against each other.... We feel we are losing control of our island and our destinies," he said.
In a second trial due to open later yesterday Len Brown, 78, will face two charges of rape of women between 1969 and 1972 along with his son, Dave Brown, 49, on 15 charges against five girls going back to 1970.
The other defendants are the mayor's son, Randy Christian 30, island chairman Jay Warren 48, postmaster Dennis Christian 49 and Terry Young 45.
They face a complex process with two courts sitting simultaneously, trying each of the men individually. Eight complainants will give evidence from New Zealand in a video link.
The defendants are on bail and last week some of them rowed the longboat which bought three judges from New Zealand on to the island, which has no harbour or airport.
The men, if found guilty, face lengthy jail terms. The British are building a minimum-security jail on the island and are seeking New Zealand prison guards to staff it.
Pitcairn remained uninhabited until Fletcher Christian's mutiny on April 28, 1789 against Captain William Bligh, who was set adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Eight mutineers along with six Tahitian men, 12 Tahitian women and a small girl then searched the South Seas for a haven, reaching uninhabited Pitcairn on January 15, 1790, where they remained undiscovered until 1808.

I FOR ONE AM SURPRISED THAT THE COMPLAINANT IS ACTUALLY WILLING TO PROCEED. i HALF EXPECTED THAT THE PROSECUTORS WERE/ARE GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE TRYING TO GET THE WITNESSES TO GO AHEAD..........WHO KNOWS THEY STILL MIGHT.
i HAVE UNCOVERED A LITTLE INFORMATION ON PITCAIRN. FIRSTLY, IHAD NO IDEA IT WAS ACTUALLY OWNED BY THE BRITS, WHO ACTUALLY ARE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN THIS ISLAND ALONG WITH AROUND 13 OTHERS IT OWNS. BRITIAN SINKS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO THE ISLAND, FOR REPAIRS ...TOURISM ETC EVERY YEAR. HOW CONVIENIANT WOULD IT BE IF PITCAIRN "NO LONGER EXISTED".....THINK ABOUT IT, IF THESE JOKERS GO TO JAIL, THATS THE WHOLE ISLAND GONE. I BET THE BRITS WOULD LOVE TO SELL IT OFF. HANG ON!!! IT WAS A BRITISH POLICEWOMAN, WHO 3 YEARS AGO UNCOVERED ALL THIS????? i DO NOT FOR ONE MINUTE CONDONE THIS KIND OF ACTION, BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL LIVING BACK IN THE 18TH CENTURY......THEY DON'T EVEN SPEAK A PROPER LANGUAGE......THEY DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND OTHER LANGUAGES. THEY SCHOOL THE KIDS AS THEY WOULD 100 YEARS AGO. THESE PEOPLE GREW UP THINKING IT WAS A NORMAL THING TO DO, AS DID MANY OF THE WOMEN. IT SHALL BE INTERESTING WATCHING WHAT TRANSPIRES THESE NEXT FEW DAYS.