Death penalty for teacher in China who raped multiple students, 17 years for his accomplice
- One of the teachers raped nine young female students between 2001 and 2020
- The school also ignored a complaint from the parents of a student in 2017
A teacher in central China was sentenced to death and another received 17 years in jail after a court in Hunan found them guilty of raping and molesting numerous students between 2001 and 2020 in a case revealed on Monday.
One of the men, surnamed Yang, was found guilty of raping nine young girls at Baisha primary school in Luxi county in Hunan. Eight of the girls were under the age of 14. The other perpetrator, surnamed Mi, joined Yang in a gang-rape of a 12-year-old female student.
The pair also molested numerous other students while tutoring or looking after them.
For their crimes, Yang received the death sentence while Mi got 17 years in prison. The sentences were handed down in August 2020, but the case was only revealed to the public by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), China’s Prosecutor General’s office, on Monday.
The court in Hunan introduced the death penalty because of the young age of the students.