Chinese teen gets life for classmate’s rape, murder

A 14-year-old boy in China has been sentenced to life for the rape and murder of his female classmate.

The student surname Jiang, hailing from Majie town, Luoping county in Qujing confined his 15-year-old classmate for a night in July last year, and resorted to violence in an attempt in rape.
Fearing that his crime would be exposed afterwards, he strangled her to death, the Intermediate People’s Court of Qujing, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province said in its judgment pronounced earlier this week, official media reported. 

The court held that the defendant’s acts constituted the crimes of rape and intentional homicide, which necessitated combined punishment for multiple offenses.

Given the exceptionally heinous circumstances of the crime and severe consequences inflicted, the offender shall be severely punished in accordance with the law.