Official gets 8 years for child rape

A former county official in Yunnan province was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison in a retrial for raping a 4-year-old girl.

Former Daguan county official Guo Yuchi was initially sentenced on Sept 24 to five years in prison for the rape, but public outcry and protests from the girl's family impelled authorities in the city of Zhaotong to demand the county court retry the case on Oct 17.

In the initial sentencing, the Daguan county court also ruled Guo did not have to financially compensate the family.