82-year-old arrested for rape in China

BEIJING, January 12, 2007 : Police in Beijing have arrested four men as old as 82 years for allegedly repeatedly raping and molesting a 14-year-old mentally handicapped girl, state press reported yesterday. The case unravelled after another 12-year-old girl was raped by one of the men in Beijing's Fengtai district last month, the Beijing News reported. Police arrested the 53-year-old suspect of that rape, who later confessed that the 14-year-old girl, identified as Xing, was also present during the crime, the paper said. Police interrogated Xing, who told them that three other men, aged 82, 70 and 50 had also been having illicit sexual relations with her for several months, the report said. All four confessed, it added.