Chinese schoolgirls' 3-month rape nightmare ends

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The teacher always sent a girl to buy his cigarettes. He left the class unsupervised and waited in his office.

When the girl returned to class with flushed cheeks and tousled hair, the other students said nothing to their parents.

For nearly three months the teacher, Li Guang, allegedly raped 26 fourth- and fifth-grade girls in this rural village. Parents and court officials assert that some girls were raped more than once and that Li attacked them in a daily rotation. His arrest came after a 14-year-old refused to go to school for fear that the next morning would be her "turn." Parents were soon talking about what was going on at the school.
"School is where our children learn," said Cheng Junyin, the mother of the 14-year-old. "We thought it was the safest place for them."

It is the sort of horrific case that in many countries would be a national scandal, but in China has largely gone unreported. That silence matches the silence at the heart of the case: the fact that students considered a teacher so powerful that they did not dare speak out.more here

What a pitiful excuse for manhood. A teacher..