The students were initially to scared to come forward, and the abuse only came to light when one of the students became pregnant. Their parents were migrant workers who had left the area to find work, leaving their children to attend school. Known as "left behind children", these kids become easy targets for sex offenders, since they are left largely to fend for themselves, cared for by grandparents.
On August 8th, similar reports surfaced when a 62-year-old teacher was arrested for abusing seven girls, some of whom were left suffering from STDs. Chinese criminologists believe that a large number of sex abuse cases of this nature go unreported - for every case that the police investigate another six go investigated.
A lack of decent sex education in China often means that children don't even know that they've been sexually abused.
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