A 17-year-old Chinese schoolgirl who figured in a pornographic video having group sex with two men was put on trial along with her “partners” by the local prosecutors accusing them of indulging in “group licentiousness”.
The “unusual criminal charge” in Dongguhan town in Guangdong province was made against the girl and two men after the obscene video was widely circulated on the Internet, Global Times reported on Wednesday.
The video clip, lasting about 8 minutes, began circulating on the Internet early in 2010.
Prosecutors went ahead with their decision to put the three on trial over ruling the assertions of girl’s father that she was raped by the two men and forced to make the sex tape and that the porno video.
The teenage defendant, identified only by the pseudonym Li Jie, a student at Houjie Vocational School and the two men shown on the sex tape stood trial at Dongguan No. 2 People’s Court. The case to limelight when Li’s parents complained to the local police on March 9 claiming that Li was forced to play sexual games with the men after they tricked her into taking drugs.
Li’s father said the men threatened his daughter if she did not perform in sex videos recorded in the following days. Li was taken into custody by the local police on March 25 and held on criminal charges for 25 days before she was released on bail.
Attorney Wang Xiaodong, Li’s lawyer, told the Global Times on Tuesday that his client would plead not guilty based on facts and relevant laws. “Li played sexual games with the men several times, but not on her own initiative,” Mr Wang said, adding that the crime of group licentiousness is a controversial issue in the rule of law.