Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed is a 2009 non-fiction book by Kathy Marks about the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004.
[2] In 1999 a teenage girl whom Marks referred to as Belinda came forward about being raped by a visitor to the island named Randy Quinn.
As a result of this statement police forces started Operation Unique, interviewing women who had lived on the island at any point during the previous twenty years.
100% of the women interviewed said they had been raped and investigators were disturbed to learn that the male relatives of the rape victims were often in fact rapists themselves who preyed on other young islander girls.
When investigators came to the island to interview the men accused of rape they readily admitted to having sex with girls as young as twelve while claiming it was consensual, though the girls themselves said that the rapes began when they were much, much younger.