Mom to take rape victim to US for treatment
By Li Qian |
July 17, 2013, Wednesday
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A MOTHER in central China whose daughter was kidnapped and repeatedly raped plans to take the girl to the United States to receive medical treatment.
In October 2006, Tang Hui's then 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped. Over a three-month period, the child was forced to have sex more than 100 times, during which time she was beaten and gang raped.
Tang, 40, is applying for US visas to seek medical help as her daughter has been diagnosed with lifelong infertility as a result of the abuse.
Tang said "warm-hearted people" had offered to cover the medical expenses, 21st Century Business Herald reported.
Tang, who was sent to a labor camp in Yongzhou City in Hunan Province after petitioning for harsher punishments for the men who raped her daughter, on Monday won 2,641 yuan (US$430) after an appeal.
The Higher People's Court of Hunan said the Yongzhou re-education through labor commission had violated Tang's personal freedom and caused her "psychological damage."
On August 2, 2012, Tang was sentenced to 18 months after she protested in front of government building, but was released eight days later after a public outcry.
After Monday's verdict, Tang said her daughter's mental scars seemed to be healing.
"I've taken her to psychologists four times this month and it seems to have worked. She isn't as unhappy as before," Tang told the Beijing Times.
Tang said she was relieved that the case had ended.
"It's all over now. I just want to live a peaceful life."
In her petitioning, Tang also claimed official misconduct took place in the investigation into her daughter's disappearance.
Tang said an officer was slow to launch a rescue after hearing of her daughter's whereabouts.
Another officer tipped off criminals, she alleged.
The Hunan political and legal affairs committee carried out an investigation into her allegations last August, but the results have not been published.
But Tang said the only things that concern her now are the death sentences two of the gang received.
If the Supreme People's Court approves the sentences, Tang said she won't lodge a petition.
On June 5, 2012, the provincial higher court sentenced two of the gang to death.
Four others were given life imprisonment, while another received a 15-year jail term.
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