After intensive trials, most of the adult men ended up convicted, some with multiple counts of sexual encounters with small children. On twenty five October 2004, 6 men ended up convicted, which includes Steve Christian, the island's mayor at the time. Gaiman examine the poem aloud to an audience at the Sundance Kabuki Theater in San Francisco on 5 October 2008 throughout his book looking at tour for The Graveyard Book.