Hainan child sex scandal takes new turn as girl says she was offered money for sex
Headmaster 'offered girl 5,000 yuan in the hotel room' telling her: 'It costs only 3,000 to sleep with a virgin'
An investigation into two men accused of sexual assault took a new turn on Wednesday after one of the six child victims involved said she was offered money for sex.
The six primary-six classmates involved initially told authorities that the men, a primary school headmaster and government official had sexually molested – but not raped – them at two different hotels in Hainan province’s Wanning city.
The girls’ parents have disputed the results and legal experts believe penetration is not required to make a criminal case for child rape, which in China, is not defined as a separate crime as it falls under the area of aggravated rape. The legal age of consent in China is 14.
According to police, four of the girls accompanied Chen to a Wanning hotel, a claim backed up by security video footage. The government official, surnamed Feng, is alleged to have taken the other two girls to a hotel in the island province’s capital Haikou. Feng, worked in the city’s housing authority and was sacked on Monday.