# E41 | The Bounty's Children

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Podcast: [The Veil](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-veil-7494973)
Published: 2026-06-29T12:01:00+00:00
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In 1790, the mutineers of HMS Bounty burned their ship in a hidden bay and vanished onto a mis-charted Pacific rock, sealing themselves off from the world. Two centuries later, that isolation had a price. When a visiting British officer, sent merely to train the local constable, was quietly told that a girl had been raped, she pulled a thread that unravelled generations of abuse on Pitcairn — and forced one of the strangest trials in legal history. Could British law even reach an island settled by men who fled it? Courts were built from scratch; a third of the island's men stood accused. Sources used Wikipedia — "Mutiny on the Bounty," "HMS Bounty," "Pitcairn Islands," "2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial": backbone for the mutiny (28 April 1789), Bligh's open-boat voyage (~3,600 nmi to Timor, ~47 days), the burning of the Bounty in Bounty Bay (23 Jan 1790), the founding violence and Fletcher Christian's death (~1793), John Adams, and the full trial record — charges (55), verdicts (6 of 7 convicted on 35 charges; Jay Warren acquitted), individual sentences, the jurisdiction defence, Betty Christian's counter-testimony, the firearms surrender, Bob's Valley prison, sentences served by 2010. History.com , National Geographic, History Hit, EBSCO, Historical Maritime, History Chronicles, Shipwrecks & Sea Dogs: corroboration for the Bounty mission (breadfruit for West Indies plantations), Tahiti layover, mutiny mechanics, settlement of Pitcairn (15 Jan 1790), Topaz/Folger discovery 1808, Thursday October Christian, Norfolk Island relocation. HMS Bounty (Wikipedia): the detail that the Tahitian men/women were effectively kidnapped (per a follower's journal) — attributed in script. NZ Herald ("Law descends on Pitcairn," Kathy Marks): the 1996 first report, Kent dete…

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