Teacher who raped 23 female students is sentenced to death

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Teacher who raped 23 female students is sentenced to death

Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published July 30, 2005

BEIJING, CHINA -- A teacher in western China who raped 23 4th- and 5th-grade girls in his office has been sentenced to death, according to an account this week in a Chinese newspaper.

Parents and students in Xinji village in Gansu province said in interviews this year with The New York Times that the teacher, Li Guang, had sent girls to buy him cigarettes and, when they returned, raped them in his office.

The attacks occurred last year from September through November, and parents say the girls never spoke out because of their deference toward Li as a teacher.

Li was ordered to pay $170 to two of the victims for medical costs, while his school was ordered to pay those girls $42.51.






Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune
 
that depraved pig. he used his position to totally malign those girls. in china children and young people are reared to respect their elders and authority figures in a way you dont see quite so much in america..so its easy to see why those girls were afraid to speak out against that man.

he is DEFINATELY getting what he deserved. if only rapists HERE in America would get the death penalty on a regular...then it might send a message to these monsters.
 
Exactly, Guardian. He is a very twisted man to do such things. It makes me sick when trying to figure out exactly what that sort of person must be thinking. People like that are obviously very misguided, but I still see it as no one’s fault except his own.

 
i dont know if there is any need to "know what they are thinking" really...once a person decides that they want to /and its OKAY to sexually assault someone..there is definately a depature in restraint and an errosion of conscience. the mental pathology of sexual predators is usually pretty predictable both in origins and symptoms ..from what ive been told. this guy was preying on young girls...NOT grown women...so that tells you something right there.
 
I agree entirely with the fact that what he did was disgusting. But I don't agree with the death penaly in any form, or for any crime. To take someone's life is a step too far, especially in any society that claims to be "civilized".

Just because it is decided in an official court, it doesn't turn murder into justice.
 
Hawk, it may seem a bit extreme to you [and others agaisnt the death penalty] but to those 23 girls who will be traumatized the rest of their lives, and to their families who are left to pick up the pieces and try to deal with something like that, no punishment is too extreme. That depraved monster terrorized little girls, and quite habitually. He deserves it, in my humble opinion.
 
I agree that what he did to the girls was horrible, but I still think death is too much. To give him a life without possibility of parole, knowing that he would die in prison, would be enough; it would take away his life from him, without being as inhumane as to murder him. Because don't forget that the death penalty is just state-sanctioned murder. How is that any better than the guy who goes out and kills someone in the street?

I mean, say a guy shoots a rapist just in the street; how is that any worse than the guy who pulls the switch on the electric chair, or administers the lethal injection?
 
im of the opinion that if we took a hard line approach to rapists, abusers and the like...then a MESSAGE would be sent..that its NOT OKAY and its NOT TOLERABLE.

This guy didnt just rape one or two GIRLS (not even women--which is no less acceptable..but CHILDREN) ..he systematically raped 23 girls. he knew what he was doing and had no qualms about it.

HE needs to be put to death so that he cant harm anyone else. "Life in prison" costs the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and look at similar offenders like Jeffrey Dahmer, who raped, murdered and AT several young black men....HE was meant to serve life in prison..but he was KILLED by someone in prison who called himself "the messiah".

either way....this "teacher" deserves to die for this....the magnitude of this crime is just unforivable (to me anyway).
 
I can't condone killing a criminal for the simple reason that I couldn't do it myself, at least in most cases (there are a few, but that wouldn't be justice).

If you believe that you could do it yourself if you were required to, then I think it's fair enough if you say that. But I do believe that you should only condone (or even advocate) something that severe if you believe in it enough to do it yourself. I don't myself, and wouldn't wish anyone else to become a murderer for someone else's crimes.
 
I don’t think that he should be put to death. It’s not because it would be too harsh, but because death is the easy way out. I wouldn’t want him to DIE with the satisfaction that he no longer must deal with the consequences. He’s a pervert and a criminal of the worst kind…nothing could ever be to harsh for him…not death…not life in prison. Then again, after what Spellbinder says about how it cost tax payer’s money…I wouldn’t want any individuals paying to keep him alive.

 
Guardian said:
once a person decides that they want to /and its OKAY to sexually assault someone..there is definately a depature in restraint and an errosion of conscience.
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Mmm, yes, but some rapists (perhaps former stalkers who become rapists) don't see it as rape. They're so fucked up in their head they think the woman really wants to have sex with them, and it doesn't penetrate into their relaity that the woman's really kicking and screaming and fighting back. All they see is what they're capable of seeing...for some of them though. Not all. I know that some other rapists really are psychos who get off on the woman being powerless. Creeps. [[shudders]]

Titania said:
Hawk, it may seem a bit extreme to you [and others agaisnt the death penalty] but to those 23 girls who will be traumatized the rest of their lives, and to their families who are left to pick up the pieces and try to deal with something like that, no punishment is too extreme. That depraved monster terrorized little girls, and quite habitually. He deserves it, in my humble opinion.
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Now, see, if I were raped and had to be tortured by it for the rest of my life, I wouldn't want the guy to get the death penalty. That lets him off the hook! Boom, he suffers for a few minutes, and then he's dead. He got an easier out than I would've had (had I been raped). I'd rather they torture rapists/murderers. Living through being tortured is far worse than being electrocuted to death or being given a shot.

Hawksmoor said:
I can't condone killing a criminal for the simple reason that I couldn't do it myself, at least in most cases (there are a few, but that wouldn't be justice).

If you believe that you could do it yourself if you were required to, then I think it's fair enough if you say that. But I do believe that you should only condone (or even advocate) something that severe if you believe in it enough to do it yourself. I don't myself, and wouldn't wish anyone else to become a murderer for someone else's crimes.
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:nod::nod: I get what you're saying, I understand you =) I, too, couldn't kill someone unless they attacked me and it was going to be a fight to the death. Even then, I don't know if I could live with the guilt.
 
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For the record, it costs SEVERAL times more to put a person to death in the US than to keep him alive.

As for this man in China, I don't trust the justice system there enough to know that he even did it.
 
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