Police: Pair raped girl, then killed her and brother
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A MAN and a boy have been held by police in southwest China’s Guizhou Province in connection with the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl and the murder of her 12-year-old brother.
Police said the pair, who are aged 20 and 17, confessed to killing Zhang Yunyu and her brother, whose name was not released, at their home in Zhongxin Village on Tuesday morning.
The names of those being held were not released.
The children’s father and elder sister were not at home in the village in Nayong County, Bijie City, at the time.
The suspects, who are relatives of the dead children, also confessed to having raped the teenage girl, said police.
Police said that as the siblings recognized the suspects, after raping Zhang they stabbed both to death.
According to reports, Zhang suffered from encephalitis swelling of the brain and had dropped out of school, while her brother was a primary school student.
Their mother is dead and their migrant worker father Zhang Xijiu occasionally went to provincial capital Guiyang, leaving the children in the care of an uncle, reports said.
Police said that the father left home on Sunday, while his 17-year-old elder daughter went to see a relative on Monday night and did not return home.
Villagers told police Zhang Yunyu had been raped by a 60-year-old neighbor in 2014.
The man is said to have given her father 30,000 yuan (US$4,829) not to tell police, according to reports.
Police have taken this man in for questioning.
This is the latest in a series of deaths of children in the poor mountainous region.
On June 9, four children, aged between 5 and 13, from one family, died after drinking pesticide at home in another village in Bijie.
In 2012, five street children in Bijie died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they burned charcoal for warmth inside the roadside dumpster they were sheltering in.
Such cases expose the plight of children living without parental care, said Xinhua news agency.
China has more than 60 million children in rural areas who are left with relatives while their parents work away from home.
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