guilty of defiling or sexually abusing 26 girls. 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. BBChas more:
"It said there have been more than 7,000 child s*x abuse cases in
recent years and that the trend is on the rise. Li had defiled 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 defiled 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.
His sentencing was met with widespread approval on China's
microblogging platform Weibo, with many expressing shock at the youth
of his victims.
"Four years old? I can't believe it," said one. "A death sentence is
too good for this man," wrote another commenter. In a rare disclosure
of abuse statistics, the Supreme People's Court told local media that
the courts heard 7,145 cases of child s*xual abuse between 2012 and
2014.
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