Breaking | New alleged victims come forward after intern’s rape claim against journalist at Chinese provincial government newspaper

More alleged victims are reportedly coming forward after a 29-year-old newspaper journalist working for the mouthpiece of Guangdong provincial government was accused of raping a 21-year-old intern.

According to a brief online statement released by Guangzhou Public Security Bureau on Tuesday evening, a woman filed a police report with Tianhe district police on Monday evening, claiming she has been raped in Yuexiu district.

“After preliminary investigation, a 21-year-old Year Three university student reported she was raped by a 29-year-old man in a hotel on Xiyouer Road, whom she had met during her internship,” the statement said.

Hours before the police statement, the victim had also released an online statement detailing the alleged incident, where she claimed she was raped by a journalist working at the newspaper, the Nanfang Daily. She also named the journalist in her online statement.

More alleged victims had contacted the intern after seeing her online statement, and claimed that the accused had also attempted to lure them into hotel rooms for sex, the online news portal Sina.com reported the victim as saying.

The Nanfang Daily is a Guangdong provincial government mouthpiece, which means the accused is a civil servant.