Meralda Elva Junior Warren (born 28 June 1959) is an artist and poet of the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific.
Warren has also served as the island's nurse, its only police officer, a ham radio operator, and as a member of the territory's governing council, among many other roles.
Travelling with patients to New Zealand and Tahiti and taking up Nursing, Radio Operator for the shore to ship skeds from ZBP station and twice daily contact with Auckland international Radio telephone link, Working in our Co-op store, Council member for many years as well as being the Governors appointee member to council a few times, Becoming the first female Police & Immigration Officer for a few years.
(T)his is getting pushed aside whilst I am working these time consuming no pay or low paid positions which was making me very tired and yes.
The island's jail was described as "the size of a garden shed and riddled with termites", and its cells had been used to store building materials and lifejackets.
[2] Warren was an outspoken critic of accusations that the island's girls had been sexually abused when young, and the prosecution of a selected number of Pitcairn's male residents.
She claimed that young girls on Pitcairn customarily became sexually active after age 12, a practice of underage sex that had been accepted as a Polynesian tradition since the settlement of the island in 1790.
"[9] Many Pitcairn Island men blamed the British police for persuading the women involved to press charges.
[10] Warren was convicted of assault during a drunken disagreement with another resident when the two were angered by tensions over the sexual abuse matter.