Man sentenced to death with reprieve for child rape

A man in east China's Anhui Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for raping and molesting minors, a court said on Sunday.

Zhang Qinghai, a coal mine worker, was found guilty of raping two girls, aged seven and nine. He was also guilty of molesting four other girls, the youngest of whom was five years old, according to a statement from the Intermediate People's Court in Huainan City, Anhui.

The court said the sex offender also took many nude pictures of the girls.

Zhang committed the offenses between 2008 and 2012, the court file shows.

Zhang met the girls in the sports field of a primary school. He told the girls he would buy them soda or pencils, then lured them to obscure alleys and committed the crimes, the court said.