China Sentences Teacher To Life For Rape Of Students

A kindergarten teacher in China was sentenced to life in prison by a court today for s3xually assaulting 12 of his students in the country's northwest region. The Intermediate People's court in Ningxia Hui Autonomous region found Huang Zhenxin guilty of raping or molesting 12 of his students.

Huang was a teacher at a rural kindergarten in the city of Lingwu. Lingwu police said Huang sexually assaulted the girls after he told them he would tutor them on their homework.

The kindergarten offered compensation to the victims. China had earlier executed a former primary school teacher for raping and sexually abusing 26 children at his school in May this year.