Defendant Pleads Guilty to Charges in Rape Case
- Share via
Pitcairn Island postmaster Dennis Christian, a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, has pleaded guilty to three charges in a case involving rape and sex with minors.
Dennis Christian, 49, admitted he indecently assaulted a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s. No details of the charges were given.
Seven men on the South Pacific island face a total of 55 charges of rape and sex with minors. Some of the charges relate to alleged incidents in the 1960s.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
