Zhou Yan, a 17-year-old girl, was burned and her face was disfigured in February by Tao Rukun, a young man who is the son of a communist party official. Tao attacked her after she rejected his advances and he sought revenge, with the incident becoming one of the most talked-about stories on China’s Internet at the time.
In a notable example in 2009, 21-year-old waitress Deng Yujiao stabbed a local official in Badong town who was allegedly trying to rape her.
And in 2006, Gao Yingying, a hotel waitress in the Hubei province city of Laohekou, was raped and murdered, and her body was cremated without autopsy. At the time, locals believed the perpetrator was a relative of the Laohekou Communist Party secretary.
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