Underage sex trial tests China's courts

Excerpt:  About a year ago, an incident made Weng'an, then an obscure county in southwestern province of Guizhou, infamous overnight. A 15-year-old schoolgirl was found dead in a local river. Police ruled that it was a case of suicide but the parents suspected that their daughter had been raped and murdered...

The China Youth Daily reported in early April that 11 girls under 18 years old (three of them as young as 13), had been lured or coerced into a prostitution ring in the county. More shocking findings were that the perpetrators included, besides some businessmen, an official at the local Judicial Department, a representative of the local People's Congress and a high school teacher

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