Man ‘killed cousin, 6, over threat to report sex abuse’
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A 19-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his 6-year-old cousin because she threatened to report that he was sexually abusing her, Qingpu District prosecutors said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Sun, was a neighbor of his young cousin, surnamed Weng, it was reported.
According to prosecutors, the child went to Sun’s home on October 27 last year and followed him when he went to a cyber cafe to play online games.
But because the little girl was too young to get into the Internet cafe, Sun had to wander the streets with her, said prosecutors.
When they passed a river, Sun is said to have asked his cousin to climb over a flood wall and play there alone.
The child was annoyed by this and threatened to tell her mother that Sun had sexually abused her several times, said prosecutors.
Afraid of being found out, Sun pushed his little cousin to the ground and strangled her, according to prosecutors.
He also struck her repeatedly with a concrete block until she was dead, it is claimed.
An autopsy found that Weng had been sexually abused.
Afterward, Sun switched his cellphone to “airplane mode” to stop it from receiving phone calls and texts and went to look for a cyber cafe, said prosecutors.
When his family tried to contact him via the QQ instant messaging service Sun blocked them, it is claimed.
Sun is said to have gone on the run and was held in a cyber cafe on December 30.
Prosecutors said that Sun became addicted to online games in middle school and often stole from his father to go to Internet cafes. At one time, he spent 20 days in an Internet cafe, said prosecutors.
Qingpu prosecutors said 80 percent of sexual assault cases they deal with involve someone known by the victim.
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