Photo: School Teacher sentenced to death by hanging for sexual abuse

A school teacher has been given a death penalty for sexually abusing his students. According to a statement by the Supreme People’s Court, teacher Li Jishun had abused 26 girls while teaching at a school in the Gansu province. The girls were said to be aged between 4 and 11 in when the crimes were committed between 2011 and 2012.

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 Supreme People’s Court thus believes that it was appropriate for Li Jishun to be executed,” the statement said, noting that the crimes were committed in the space of just one year.