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Prosecutors call for harsher sentences in gang-rape case
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Prosecutors have lodged a protest over the sentencing of 12 teenagers who were convicted of gang-raping a girl last year in Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province, Nanfang Rural Daily reported today.
Wuchuan prosecutors on June 18 said in a court filing that the sentences were not harsh enough because the victim was suffering from physical injuries and emotional trauma, the report said.
The victim’s family also expressed dissatisfaction with the court’s ruling. Li Binquan, a lawyer from Guangdong Guohui law office, has volunteered to help the family appeal the ruling, the report said.
The convicts were aged between 14 and 17 years old when they raped the 14-year-old victim on May 6, 2013.
The group’s leader, surnamed Dong, 17, was a friend of the victim’s brother but pretended he didn’t know the girl while raping her, the court said.
Dong was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The other 17-year-old involved was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. Three other accomplices were handed three-year jail terms. The remaining seven also received three-year prison terms although the sentences were suspended for four years and 11 months, the report said.
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