China Executes Teacher For Raping 26 Students Because He Was A “Threat To Society”

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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.

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In its ruling, the Supreme Court said all of Li's victims were girls younger than 12 who attended his village boarding school and "were his responsibility to educate and protect."

"However, he took advantage of his status as teacher to repeated rape and molest the young girls, concealing his crimes and making it more difficult for his victims to resist and expose him," the ruling said.