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Bogus top cop appeals sex fraud conviction
Updated: 2010-02-24 14:46
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A security guard is appealing his sentence after being convicted of fraud for tricking women into having sex with him by posing as the head of a police bureau.
The appeal will be heard soon at Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court.
Pei Wensheng, 40, from Liaoning province, was working as a security guard at a company in Beijing at the time of the offence.
He is asking for a more lenient sentence, saying the one-and-a-half-year term he got on Feb 4 at the district court was too severe.
China Daily reports that a court official said Pei had been pretending to be an official of a Beijing district police bureau since early last year. The official said the man used the identity to cheat two female victims into giving him property and sex. An official told China Daily that Pei monitored job-seeking information posted on street poles and contacted women that way.
His two victims worked in a beauty salon, authorities said. He told one of the women he would free her boyfriend, who was in jail, if she would have sex with him. Authorities said he tricked the other woman into living with him.
The maximum prison term for such fraud is 10 years in prison.
（中国日报网英语点津 Helen 编辑）
About the broadcaster:
Renee Haines is an editor and broadcaster at China Daily. Renee has more than 15 years of experience as a newspaper editor, radio station anchor and news director, news-wire service reporter and bureau chief, magazine writer, book editor and website consultant. She came to China from the United States.
