Yang Dazhi, 41, former headmaster of Xianjin primary school in Bijie, Guizhou Province was sentenced to death on May 5 for raping and molesting six girls, reported the cjrnews public WeChat account affiliated to Yangtze River Daily on Monday.

Among the victims, the youngest was 8 years old and the eldest 13. The count found that Yang had sexually assaulted the students in the classroom and in his office several times under the pretext of helping them with homework. He was arrested on June 4, 2014. One of the students surnamed Zhou, who sustained sexually related injuries, said that the first time she was sexually assaulted was when she was at preschool. Required by Yang to stay to do homework at school, she was molested and raped several times between 2010 and May 2014. Yang asked her not to tell others by threatening her or granting petty favors. Zhou has been deeply depressed and shown poor academic performance, said her father.