Six people, including three businessmen, have been arrested in Zhejiang province over a prostitution ring involving school girls who were recruited to provide sex to officials and rich clients.
Yongkang police said yesterday they launched a crackdown on the ring last month and 10 people had been implicated, including a municipal legislator.
The prostitution ring had apparently been operating since February last year and people were asking why it took so long to expose the abuse.
The arrests came less than a week after Yongcheng city police in Henan province detained a former Communist Party official on suspicion of raping underage girls.
Li Xingong, who was deputy party head in Yongcheng, was accused of sexually assaulting more than 10 girls, according to a tersely worded press release at the weekend.
Mainland media, citing parents of some of the victims, reported that Li might have assaulted as many as 100 schoolgirls, some as young as 10. The public has since been clamouring for more information.
