Chinese teacher who raped 39 students executed

Beijing, Sept 11 (PTI) China executed a school headmaster
in north-west Gansu province for raping and sexually harassing
39 girls in the last 18 years.

The teacher Luo Yanlin, 48 who worked at three primary
schools in Jingning County was executed in Gansu province on
Wednesday. He sexually assaulted girls between seven and 14
years between 1988 and 2006, Shanghai Daily reported.

"Luo's crimes have seriously harmed the young girls'
mental and physical health, disturbed normal teaching and had
an extremely negative impact on society," the court said.

The dreaded teacher used to lure the children into his
office on pretext of tutoring them before outraging their
modesty.

Luo raped several of the girls over the same period and
raped one repeatedly through six years of primary schooling.
He raped a nine-year-old granddaughter, the Pingliang City
Intermediate People's Court said.

His crimes were exposed on August 14, 2006 when two
former victims, both of whom were college students then,
informed police about the crimes.

Zhang, one of the victims told police that the teacher
had raped them more than 10 times when they were aged only 12.
Luo was arrested and charged with raping and molesting
children. He was sentenced to death on July 4 last year.

Last year another teacher in Chinese Gansu province was
sentenced to death for raping 18 students.