On September 9, the public judgement on a case in which three hooligans beat and gang-raped a 19-year-old female network administrator in Shijiazhuang City of Hebei Province was announced in the Qiaoxi District People's Court of Shijiazhuang. The five defendants were all sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, with the maximum sentence being sixteen years and a half.
During this period, the victim was beaten and illegally detained for as long as 13 hours.