BEIJING - A COURT in central China said on Sunday it had jailed two police officers for the attempted rape of two teenage girls, one of whom jumped to her death while trying to resist the assault.
Gong Cheng, a policeman in Hunan province, was given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, the Intermediate People's Court in Xiangxi prefecture said in a statement - a sentence normally commuted to life in prison.
Assistant policeman Xu Lei was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Another three men involved in the attempted rape were given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, life in prison and 13 years respectively.
The five were also ordered to pay more than 350,000 yuan (S$67,879) in compensation. LINK
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