2 men in underage-sex case sentenced for rape

A court in Qionglai, Sichuan province, has sentenced two men in the city to five years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

What is unusual about the case is that it gave the sentence on the basis of rape rather than that of paying a girl under the age of 14 to have sex.

"Deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have been calling for the abolition of the crime of paying a girl under the age of 14 for sex and replacing it with rape," said Dong Yuchuan, a lawyer in Chengdu, Sichuan.