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Man jailed after getting underage lover pregnant
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-11 11:26

A young man has been sentenced to jail for six years after having sex with a girl when she was only 14 years old.

Xu started a relationship with the girl two years ago when she was just 13 and started to have sex with her a year later, despite warnings from her parents to leave their underage daughter alone.

Last summer, she fell pregnant and had to have an abortion at a hospital in Changchun, Jilin province, where the case was reported to the police.

A court ruled recently that, under the law, he had committed rape and must be punished severely.