A Chinese man and his wife were sentenced to death and life imprisonment, respectively by a court in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on Monday in a case involving attempted rape and murder.
The verdict was announced four days after a non-public trial as the victim was a minor.
Bai Yunjiang and his wife Tan Beibei were convicted of intentional homicide, attempted rape and robbery, the Jiamusi Intermediate People’s Court said in a verdict.
The court said that on July 24 last year, Tan, pregnant at the time, lured a 17-year-old girl to her home by pretending to have pains in her abdomen and asking her for help.
It said the couple, who were arrested four days later, drugged the girl and attempted to rape her.
It said the couple killed the girl and buried her in a rural area as they feared their crime would be uncovered.
The court said that Tan confessed that her husband knew that she had sex with several other men and the idea of luring a young girl for her husband to rape emerged out of guilt.
The court found that the couple earlier failed on two occasions to rape one of their daughter’s classmates and rob and kill one of Bai’s former middle school classmates in late June and mid July last year.
It said Tan gave birth to a boy in August while in police custody.
It said the child had been sent to a local welfare centre, after the couple and their relatives gave up custody.
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