FOR QUESTION 2 JULIE SHI

LAW  Crime of carnal knowledge of a child; Carnal knowledge with girls aged under fourteen (14) years is considered rape and deserves a heavier penalty. II. Rapists will be punished with imprisonment from 10 years to life imprisonment, until death penalty under following circumstances

Law  Child prostitution ‘Promiscuity’ Punishment imprisonment for up to 5 years or forced labour. Those who instigate minors to promiscuity will be punished by a heavier penalty. ‘Organising, compelling, inducing or harbouring girls under fourteen (14) to prostitution’ Punishment : 5 to 10 years‘ imprisonment with fine or confiscation of property. ‘Serious’ offenders will be punished by life imprisonment or death penalty with confiscation of property. ‘Inducing girls aged under fourteen (14) to prostitution’ Punishment : imprisonment for up to 5 years and fine.

case  In early 2009, more than a dozen middle school girls under 14 were forced to have sex with men in Xishui city in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Police found out that the girls had been intimidated by two other teenagers and kept at a woman's house where they were forced to receive arranged customers, including a schoolteacher and other civil servants.

continue  But despite the swift arrest of those who ran the child prostitution ring, the customers were given prison sentences ranging from only five to 15 days in addition to 2,000 yuan-5,000 yuan fines, because the country's current criminal law does not identify such a crime as child rape. Instead, it specifies that if a financial tradeoff is involved, the case should be classified as "inducing child prostitution."

Opponents  “Tong Lihua, Director of the Child Protection Committee at the National Lawyers Association, says those violations are an outcry against the absence of a powerful child protection law. The problem, as she sees, is not so much about law enforcement, but something that is inherently wrong with the current law.”  The leniency granted to offenders who claim they were not aware of a child's age and had paid for consensual sex simply amounts to giving them a chance to get a free ride with regards to the factual criminal nature of their inflictions upon the child.

Approver  The penalty of rape might increase more people to kill the victims after they raped them.  More specific

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