Man executed in China for rape of 26 minors
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| Tianshui, Gansu Province, China |
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BEIJING, (Xinhua) -- A man in northeast China's Gansu Province was executed Thursday for the rape and sexual abuse of 26 children, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said.
Li Jishun, a former primary school teacher, was put to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Tianshui City after the SPC approved the death penalty.
Li was found by the court to have raped or sexually abused 26 girls aged from 4 to 11 when he was a teacher from 2011 to 2012. He took advantage of those who were both childish and timid and committed his acts in dormitories or classrooms.
Considering the harm Li caused to the girls concerned and the extremely negative social impact, Li was given the heaviest punishment, said a judge from the SPC.
The SPC also published the details of four other cases involving sexual abuse of minors. In one case, a man raped five girls in a school dormitory. He was given a death sentence reprieved for two years.
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| Tianshui, Gansu Province, China |
In April, two other teachers in China were given the death sentence for sexually abusing young children. Gao Daosheng, a 59-year-old teacher in Wuhu, Anhui province, was convicted for raping and sexually molesting 11 first- and second-grade students multiple times starting in late 2011.
Yang Shifu, 56, was found guilty of raping two underage girls and sexually abusing an unspecified number of girls when he was teaching in 2012 and 2013.
In 2013, China's supreme court ordered that harsher punishments be handed out to child abusers, an announcement that came just days after seven cases of school-aged children being sexually molested or abused had surfaced. In most of the cases, teachers or government officials were identified as the perpetrators.
The SPC said child sexual abuse cases are on the rise in recent years, with 7,145 such cases being handled by courts across the country from 2012 to 2014. CSA cases rose 40 per cent during that period.
We can make the assumption that much of the spectacular increase in child sex abuse has to do with the availability of child pornography on the internet. If that assumption is correct, then we can expect the situation to get much worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better, in spite of the instant, one-way tickets to Hell from the courts.
Is the death sentence draconian for the horrific child sex abuses mentioned above, or is it entirely appropriate? What do you think?
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| Tianshui, Gansu Province, China |
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