Teen tries to rape woman but finds it a tall order

A TEENAGER tried to rape a woman but was too short to overpower her, reported China Press.

He had seen her alighting from the same bus as he was going home after drinks at a bar in Beijing.

The youth, who is not 18 yet, grabbed the woman, 24, by her collar and dragged her to a nearby park.

He covered her mouth with his hand as she screamed for help, but was unable to hang on to the woman who was much taller.

She escaped and lodged a police report. The teen, who worked as a cook, was arrested the next day.

He was recently jailed for 34 months for the crime that happened at about 9pm on March 16 last year.

> In a bizarre case in Shanxi, China, a 55-year-old gangster snatched a man’s wife and then sent 50 thugs to intimidate him.

To the husband’s dismay, he also found out from a paternity test that his daughter, born in April last year, was not his.

The man, identified only as Yuan, married Xiao Li two years ago, China Press reported.

He claimed that Zhang Ming, a well-connect- ed and influential man in the underworld, had been intimidating him to let go of his wife.

Yuan also alleged that he found 17mil yuan (RM10.9mil) in cash, jewellery and other expensive accessories in Xiao Li’s possession before they got married but he never asked his wife about it.

Eventually, he learned that his wife and Zhang had known each other during their teenage years.

But they continued with their affair even after Xiao Li got married.

Following months of suffering, Yuan said he divorced his wife in last August as he could no longer tolerate the threats to his safety.

> A mother repeatedly beat her seven-yearold daughter with a tree branch for wetting herself in school, Oriental Daily reported. The girl was left bleeding profusely. Bystanders in Jiangsu, China, captured the incident, which went viral on social media.

Apparently, the 31-year-old mother was alerted by the school authorities that her daughter had wet her pants during class and did not have a change of clothes.

She started hitting her daughter when they left the school later.