Despite immense pressure to withdraw their testimony, key witnesses for the prosecution are secured. A campaign to undermine the victims to withdraw from the trial begins, led by… Pitcairn women.

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There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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Luke Jones meets Glenda at her home, in the UK. Glenda grew up on Pitcairn but now lives in the UK. She was abused growing up but told no one, until she was contacted by Kent Police during Operation Unique. This is the first time Glenda has recorded her story and it is very emotional. Glenda is supported in the room by her therapist and friend Sandy. 

And what about justice for the victims and survivors? Some fear the risks to the Island are too great to take this to trial. Politicians and lawyers around the world fiercely debate whether there is a case to answer.

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There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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What is the history of the Island of Pitcairn, its myths and realities?

Born from the 1789 Mutiny, the mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian stumble across Pitcairn. Handily wrongly located on maps, this is their opportunity to escape the British Navy and disappear, today all Pitcairn families are descended from the mutineers and their Tahitian ‘wives’. But they were not a contented community, marked by violence and death, which are marked on the Island in place names. Abuse survivor Glenda, now living in the UK, paints a vivid picture of life on the Island, eating breadfruit, swimming, the unique language, the red volcanic dirt. But her memories are not all full of sunshine…

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There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken Pitcairn party, one evening, another girl makes an allegation of rape. Detective Peter George returns to Pitcairn and a distressing and astonishing picture begins to emerge of child sexual abuse on an unimaginable scale.

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There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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In Kent, UK, Police Officer Peter George is asked to investigate an alleged serious crime: the rape of a child. The crime is not in England but on the remote Pacific Island of Pitcairn, and what Peter and his colleague find is a complicated story. They decide that modern British law and policing must be taken to this worryingly lawless Island, but how to implement an entire legal system on a remote Pacific island? And what are the secrets that are hidden in plain sight?

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There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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Halfway between Peru and New Zealand is a tiny volcanic island, a little known British Territory. The community of Pitcairn is home to 37 people....and a terrifying scandal. In The Pitcairn Trials, British Journalist Luke Jones uncovers a story of historic abuse in a remote place where prosecuting secrets and challenging centuries of power has left deep scars on generations of women and girls, and brought a unique, lonely, pacific island to the brink of extinction.The Pitcairn Trials is a chilling lesson in what human beings can be capable of when they think no one is watching them.

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