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Title: The paradise island where no one wants to live: HMS Bounty mutineers' settlement could die out because of dark legacy of child sex abuse
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URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar ... rk-legacy-child-sex-abuse.html
Published: Aug 25, 2021
Author: Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline
Post Date: 2021-08-25 10:07:02 by Ada
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Only 50 people live on Pitcairn, the last British territory in the Pacific Ocean
Faced with ageing population - and last child was born there four years ago
Inhabitants have made impassioned plea for people to join their community
Isle harbours dark past after six men were jailed for child sex abuse in 2004
Largely populated by mutineers on HMS Bounty who arrived in late 1700s

To many, it would seem the epitome of paradise - an idyllic isle thousands of miles from civilisation where the worst noise pollution comes from the azure sea gently lapping the shore.

But no-one can be persuaded to live there, for love nor money.

The colony on the remote Pitcairn Islands, which were largely populated in the late 1700s when mutineers on the HMS Bounty washed ashore, is under threat of dying out.

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