Luo Yanlin () was a Chinese school

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who was executed for

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ing and

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39 girls between 1988 and 2006."Chinese teacher who raped 39 students executed"
. ''expressindia.com'', September 11, 2008. Retrieved 2010-11-06. He was arrested and executed in 2008.

Crimes

Luo worked at three

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s in Jingning County in northwest China's

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province. He would lure the girls into his office under the pretext of

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ing. The victims were between 7 and 14 years of age. Luo was arrested in 2006 when several former victims informed the police about his crimes. Investigators found that at least 26 girls had been raped. The official number of assault victims was deemed to be 39, but the actual number was probably higher due to some victims not wanting to give evidence."Primary school principal in China on trial for serial rapes"
''haaba.com'', July 31, 2007. Retrieved 2010-11-06. Luo raped one girl repeatedly through six years of her primary schooling. He raped another victim more than 10 times when she was 12 years old. One girl Han Mou (韩某) reported Luo to the police, saying that Luo raped her dozens of times on the pretext of explaining homework. Another girl Zhang Mou (张某) confirmed that Luo repeatedly raped and molested Han and that both Zhang and Han were 12 years old at the time.

Arrest and execution

At the time of his arrest, Luo was a school

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. He went on trial after confessing to all of the crimes and was sentenced to death on July 4, 2007. According to the court, "Luo's crimes have seriously harmed the young girls' mental and physical health, disturbed normal teaching and had an extremely negative impact on society." Luo was executed in Gansu province on September 10, 2008.

References

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