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Teacher executed for raping and molesting 26 girls

Chinese High court has executed a primary school teacher found guilty of raping and abusing 26 girls.

 

A paedophile has been executed by the Chinese High Court for sexually abusing 26 young girls over the course of just 12 months.

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Li Jishun had committed the crimes between 2011 and 2012 while teaching at a village school in Gansu province.

He preyed on pupils aged 4 to 11 who were "young and timid", according to a statement by the Supreme People's Court reported by local media.

It said there have been more than 7,000 child sex abuse cases in recent years and that the trend is on the rise.

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Li had raped 21 of his victims and sexually abused the other five in classrooms, dormitories, and the forest surrounding the village near Wushan town.

The statement said that some of his victims had been raped or abused more than once. It made no mention of how he was caught.

But it said that the Gansu court had found him "a grave threat to society" and noted that he had committed the crimes within just one year.

"The Supreme People's Court thus believes that it was appropriate for Li Jishun to be executed," it said.

Local media ran the story with caricatures of the man depicting him as a wolf gobbling up children.

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Li's sentencing and execution are widely supported on Chinese social media.

Comments from Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of twitter, condemn the criminal for his intolerable wrongdoings, saying that even death penalty is too light of a punishment.

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