PrefaceThe hot spots of online public opinion this summer reminded me of Xiaobin. I had listened to his narrative in a documentary, and after tossing around and finding him, we first exchanged words and then talked with him almost every other day for the rest of the time. After trust was gradually built up, we had our first face-to-face interview on May 8. Through several interviews, I finally sorted out what had happened to him and got some new clues, along which I contacted more people. In the less than a month since then, I have had more and more conversations with people around this small town, and the matter has exceeded my expectations. The breadth of their existence as victims of sexual assault is difficult to know for a variety of reasons. In the time that followed, Xiaolin, Xiaobin and Xiaoyu, the three people with whom I maintained the closest relationship, were interviewed one after another from May to August, and the serial sexual assault case in this small town years ago has only just revealed the tip of its iceberg.
1
18-year-old Xiao Lin was born in Kaili, Guizhou. In this small town on the south bank of the Qingshui River, the lives of most locals still continue at the same pace as 20 years ago. The college entrance exam is still the best way out for local young people – the only way to stop them from repeating the mistakes of previous generations who went out to work, and Xiao Lin is one of the few lucky ones who have changed their fate.
Outside the university dormitory, the leaves of the sycamore trees have become yellow. Late at night, Xiao Lin suddenly sat up from his bed, turned his head to make sure his roommates around him were sleeping peacefully before he exhaled deeply – the events of that summer three months ago were still etched in his memory, like a huge beast with its mouth wide open, devouring him in one unsuspecting night.
Five months ago, the day after the college entrance exam, Xiao Lin rushed back to school to pack luggage, because some things to continue to use to get to college, before leaving home, his mother handed him a large woven bag. After the woven bag stuffed, than 1 m 6 m Lin a good deal higher than the back of the back like a small mountain.
Xiao Lin carried the bag and walked along the road in front of the school, a narrow ramp, and like many of his classmates, he had to walk to the bus stop at the intersection to get a ride home.
“Graduated, huh?”
Hearing this voice, Xiao Lin first froze, then continued to walk forward with his head down, but the person slowly stepped closer to Xiao Lin: “You will not forget me, right?”
Kobayashi still didn’t answer, and walked faster with his head down – he saw his classmates in the crowd in front of him, and this was a good chance to get away from the man in front of him.
“Just seeing how you’re doing.” The man spoke for the third time, but Xiao Lin has met his companion, simply put the woven bag to the ground, staring straight at each other: “What do you want?”
This scene is a déjà vu.
Three years ago, Xiaolin just a senior high school, invited by a friend to a birthday party. That day, in addition to Lin’s classmates, more than a dozen boys and girls of a similar age, there is a slightly older man. The man kept making advances on the girls, and pulled out his cell phone to diligently add the contact information of everyone present. The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem.
The Monday night after the party, after the evening study session, Xiao Lin and his classmates left the school together and walked towards the bus stop. The dim light was mostly covered by the dense trees, and the slope was long and steep, so the students scattered in all directions, leaving Xiao Lin alone on the road.
Suddenly, a figure suddenly appeared and blocked in front of Xiao Lin, the same man from the party two days ago.
“What do you want?” Xiao Lin was not sure what the intention of the visitor was.
“No, no, just a little like ……”
The man stammered out the rest of the words, sensing that the atmosphere was not right, Kobayashi reacted instinctively – running away, in a society of acquaintances like Kerry, it is not difficult to find out where a person is, but it is not often that they come to the door without warning – even if the other party is to “make a show of affection”.
Kobayashi ran into a classmate he knew along the way. It was the only time that luck was on Kobayashi’s side, perhaps because he was relieved to see that there were so many people, and the man didn’t come after him.
He firmly remembered the man’s name: Liu Jun Cao.
2
Liu Juncong was born in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, according to the recollection of a girl at the party Xiao Lin attended, Liu Juncong was less than 1 meter 7 meters tall and very thin at the time, and was the only son of the family, usually a dude’s image, after graduating from junior high school, did not continue to study.
After coming out of school, 17-year-old Liu Juncao and many girls have been dating, from a few weeks to a few months have, the girlfriend changed very diligently, but few have a good impression of him. In order to make the girl happy, he will often move some small thoughts, such as will send gifts to the girl’s home. At the same time, his desire to control also seems to be extremely strong, always because the girl said a few words with other men, will be directly flip.
The day after the college entrance exams, Liu Jun Cao reappeared in Xiaolin’s life.
Later, Xiao Lin learned that two years ago, Liu Juncao went to the military – Liu’s father, who works for the government, saw that his son could not get into high school and had nothing to do, so he used his power to get through the Ministry of Armed Forces and tampered with his age to put him in the army.
The re-emergence of Liu Jun Cao, so Xiao Lin did a little panic. But after all, it was daytime, Liu Jun Cao probably did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary, so they hurriedly squeezed into the car with their classmates. When the car drove off, Xiao Lin dared to sneak back to sweep a glance at Liu Jun Cao standing alone on the roadside, staring at himself.
But soon, the anxiety about the results of the college entrance exam, let Xiaolin briefly forget about this matter. Xiao Lin’s home does not have a computer, the day the results came out, he specifically ran to the Internet cafe not far from home to check the score. The score was higher than expected, although not excellent, but at least did not lose with the university. Previously, Xiao Lin intended that if he really failed, it will not be repeated, directly south to work – the mother’s job in the local establishment, the father is outside the workforce, rarely see people throughout the year, the tuition fees to repeat the family is undoubtedly a heavy expense.
Xiao Lin immediately called to tell his mother the results. A few months before the college entrance exam, in addition to meals and other things, Xiaolin and his mother almost nothing to talk, a home to their own smothered in the room, the mother also knows what her son is facing, so did not bother. After learning of Xiaolin’s results, his mother was very relieved, after all, studying in college means that you can find a decent job, as for his son’s tuition fees, but also these years have long been calculated.
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Lin continued to chat with his classmates online, everyone’s results came out, how to choose a university and professional became a hot topic in the group chat, and soon, two hours passed.
The summer solstice in Kaili, the temperature continues to hover at more than 30 degrees, out of the Internet cafe, Xiaolin flew to home, sweat slick down. The heat wave has been trailing him to the doorstep, closely followed by Liu Jun embrace.
“Where are you going?” Liu Juncao grabbed Xiaolin’s hand as he spoke.
“What’s it to you!” The moment he saw Liu Juncao in the hallway of his home, Xiao Lin was terrified, and he pulled out the hand that was held with force. Inside the empty hallway, there were only two of them.
“Just want to invite you to my house to play.” This time the Liu Jun embrace is “polite” a lot, “you see outside so hot ……”
“I do not go and so what.” Xiao Lin instinctively refused.
Liu Juncao then “euphemistically” brought out the names of his “brothers”, Xiao Lin then realized that wanting to get rid of this local snake in this small place, is almost impossible. The other side has found their own doorstep, what choice do they have?
3
Xiao Lin followed Liu Jun embraced to his home. The duplex is large and has a roof garden. It was a hot summer day, but it couldn’t stop the chill from coming out of Xiaolin’s body – it looked like Liu Juncao was the only one living in the large house.
“You know, I fell in love with you when I saw you for the first time.” With no one around, Liu Juncao looked as if he had finally told the secret that had been buried in his heart for a long time.
Xiao Lin’s expressionless face did not prevent Liu Jun Cao from stroking him with interest. At that moment fear was like a plant outside the wall, crawling over every nerve of the 18-year-old Xiaolin: “He acts like he’s soothing you on one side, making it hard to catch his thoughts; on the other, he’s controlling you, making you feel deeply afraid.”
“I just need you for a minute.” After Liu Jun embraced these words, he pressed Xiao Lin dead on the bed. Then, there was the heart-breaking pain, Xiao Lin did not even dare to open his eyes, he knew that his body was being torn apart little by little, and his memory was completely taken over by the pain.
The pain blurred the time, when Xiaolin was still sorting out the messy clothes, Liu Jun Cao once again “warned” Xiaolin, if the afternoon’s events out, “will end badly”.
Xiao Lin stumbled back home, but fortunately his mother was not there, he dove into the bathroom, turn on the faucet, a burst of water on their own. When the mother came back, she saw Xiao Lin who was cooking, usually Xiao Lin did not talk much, the mother did not find anything unusual, she did not know what had happened to her son.
That night, lying in bed, Xiao Lin could not close his eyes for a long time, he did not want to tell others, but a more difficult to say the truth in front of: who will believe himself – by another male assault? How to talk about this matter?
During that time, Xiaolin thought most about how to stop being haunted by Liu Junzhuang. He could only isolate himself from the outside world, hardly leaving the house, friends’ invitations were all put off, except for limited conversations with his family, the majority of the time he did not want to contact others. This life continued until he got his acceptance letter from the university, and then quickly packed his bags and left the small town.
After the military training, Xiao Lin never gave himself the chance to be alone, no matter if he went to class or to the cafeteria, or even to take a shower.
Staying with his roommates was the safest way to make Lin feel safe, and even when they became closer, Lin never mentioned his past in front of them. For a long time, he would even fall into a kind of unnamable self-blame – he kept thinking that it was some kind of fault or behavior of his own that had invited bad things to happen to him. This led to him waking up in nightmares during his first few months of college.
In Kerry, everything that happened during this summer finally faded away because Xiaolin was far away. However, the evil deeds of Liu Juncao would not stop because of Xiao Lin’s departure.
4
When I escaped from Liu Juncao’s house, the time pointed to 2:00 am. Even on weekends, Kaili is frighteningly quiet after midnight.
In January in Guizhou, the temperature in the early morning is only four or five degrees, and the cold, humid air always penetrates the seams of heavy clothing and stirs up a chill.
16-year-old Xiaobin is not fully clothed, in a trance, retrograde on the road, there is only one thought in his head – and so there are cars, they will rush up, once and for all.
Xiaobin remembered that five months ago, when he got into the “People’s Middle School” with excellent grades, it was a completely different picture.
“I hope we’re on the right path.” At that time, the class teacher asked Xiaobin to come up and read his essay to the class. The class teacher’s surname was Yang, an outstanding teacher at the provincial level, and Xiaobin was a proud student of this amiable middle-aged man; on weekdays, Xiaobin was also a member of the school’s league committee, and the badminton club had his presence.
Victim Xiaobin’s high school campus (Photo by the author) Victim Xiaobin’s high school campus (Photo by the author)
In the first semester of entering Minzhong, Xiaobin got along well with his classmates, who didn’t know that with Xiaobin’s score, he could have chosen a better high school, but chose this high school simply because the tuition fees here were relatively low – a decision Xiaobin made on his own when he filled out his volunteer application after the midterm.
At the age of 7, Xiaobin’s parents divorced, and he knew better than to live with his mother, who was running around for him to study.
If he dies, who will take care of his mother? Faced with the endless road, Xiaobin snapped back to his senses.
Xiaobin’s home is in the east of the city, the top floor of an old residential building, the gray siding has begun to peel off, revealing a piece of red brick. The house was rented by her mother earlier, and Xiaobin only came back on weekends, staying one night before returning to school. Mother has been working abroad, occasionally mother and son reunion, the old house does not seem so cold.
After entering the house, Xiaobin could not care less about the cold, and played a basin of water. There was no water heater in the old residential building, and the induction stove was the only tool to get hot water. After shedding his clothes in the bathroom, Xiaobin let out a long sigh at his body – a brownish-red one. He remembered clearly what Liu Juncong had done to himself, every second of it.
At 4 a.m., lying in bed looking up at the cracked ceiling, Xiaobin couldn’t sleep. A dozen hours ago, Xiaobin was still working with his classmates and was figuring out how to spend the weekend – maybe go home and change clothes as usual, and then meet up with his classmates to play badminton on Sunday morning.
“What’s fuming?”
“Nothing …… nothing ……,” Xiaobin panicked, stuffing his phone into his pocket.
“You’re not going to the Internet?”
“You guys go ahead.”
Xiaobin dismissed his classmates and re-pulled out his cell phone, which had a number with no name saved on it. From the school building to the entrance of Minzhong, two sections of less than a hundred steps, each step down, Xiaobin’s steps became heavier and heavier, with the rapid flow of people leaving the school formed a huge contrast.
The person on the other end of the phone is none other than Liu Junzhuang. The content of the message was simple, a hotel address and room number, and a sentence: “If you do not come, what results you know.”
Xiaobin tried to reassure himself: maybe Liu Juncao would be too drunk not to do anything about it.
At 10 p.m., Xiaobin pushed open the box of the hotel in the short message. Liu Juncao was not drunk, he was fighting with his “brothers” on the mahjong table, the room was full of choking smoke smell.
“Aigoooo, you’re finally here.” Seeing Xiao Bin’s arrival, Liu Jun Cao suddenly warmed up and turned to introduce to his poker buddy: “This is my good friend.”
Xiao Bin cursed in his heart. Liu Juncong offered to invite the present to eat a snack, the card game ended there, dozens of red yuan from the mahjong table hastily stuffed into the wallet. At 10 o’clock at night, the Niuchangba diners gathered, Liu Juncong ordered barbecue, and ordered beer, Xiao Bin first saw four people can drink so much beer, empty bottles of wine haphazardly discarded under the table, there is no place to get off.
Xiao Bin did not touch a drop of wine, he wanted to find the opportunity to leave, were pulled back roughly by Liu Jun.
Nearly 12 o’clock, the drinking game ended. The other three people left unhappily, and Liu Jun Cao dragged Xiaobin into a cab that was lying at the intersection, and the alcohol made Liu Jun Cao wantonly exert his brutal behavior, dragging Xiaobin’s arm to raw pain. The middle unit, the 10th floor, the door on the left, is Xiaobin’s memory of Liu Juncao’s address. Soon, Xiaobin once again watched his blood bitch down to the floor.
When Xiaobin opened his eyes again, it was noon, and it would not take more than a few hours to get back to school. At least home is still safe, Xiaobin reassured himself that, in addition to himself and his mother, home address no third person knows, but to the school …… Xiaobin dare not continue to think.
5
Because of the place of origin, the students of Minzhong will naturally be divided into two groups of locals and foreigners, and Xiaobin belongs to the foreigners. After a few months of high school life, Xiaobin met a local classmate named Ning Ning, compared to Xiaobin’s usual enthusiasm, Ning Ning seems introverted, perhaps because of this, he and the rest of the local classmates have almost no interactions, but instead “switched” to the side of foreign students like Xiaobin. Ning Ning took the initiative to take Xiao Bin and a few other foreign students to play in the small town, where the food is cheap and delicious, where the Internet cafe prices are low, one way or another, we became familiar with it, and in a flash, a semester will pass.
“Going out together tonight?” On Saturday afternoon, Xiaobin was packing his school bag when Ning tapped him on the shoulder.
“What are you going to do?”
“Singing.” Ning Ning said.
Xiao Bin casually asked who was going, Ning Ning said, in addition to classmates on a few friends from Kaili.
In Kaili, in addition to the small bar attached to Yongle Road, several large KTVs are lined up along West Beijing Road. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
“First punish yourself three cups ah, come late, come late.” Everyone greeted him with a smile.
“Boom”, one of the older men placed the empty glass in front of Xiaobin, Xiaobin looked at the glass is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, hold it slightly larger than the palm of your hand. Being invited, feeling embarrassed, Xiaobin picked up the beer on the table and poured it for himself, then slowly drank it down.
After 3 cups, Xiaobin felt some drunkenness coming on already, and the 8 people in his eyes kept hissing along with the music, pushing and drinking, and the choking smell of smoke forced him to sit in a corner of the sofa.
“Eh, you know what?” After a song, a usually unfamiliar classmate came around next to Xiaobin, “That guy was a soldier.”
Following the sound, the short-haired, semi-round face, a man with a slight limp leg, since entering Xiaobin’s sight, cigarettes and wine have not left his hand, before his words also popped out from time to time some vulgar words, to show their “manliness”.
Soon, the man leaned toward Xiaobin, holding a cup in his hand, again to drink.
“Brother, the first time to meet ah, my name is Liu Jun embrace.”
Xiaobin did not answer, poured himself wine, gulped down.
“You’re from Mingao, right, what’s your name?”
Xiaobin nodded and said his name. Liu Jun embrace again unrelentingly poured a cup for Xiaobin, Xiaobin drank half of it, can not stand it, put down the glass.
“You’re not enough!” Seeing that Xiaobin’s wine was not finished, Liu Juncao’s tone suddenly became unusually dissatisfied, and Xiaobin was shocked and did not dare to look at Liu Juncao. While he was still sober, Xiaobin said he had to go to the bathroom, and the moment he stood up from the sofa, a feeling of dizziness hit him unprepared, and his body swayed a little.
Liu Juncao reached out to hold Xiaobin and took the initiative to “escort” him step by step to the bathroom. “Snap”, the door was locked, the music outside is still booming.
Just as Xiao Bin was about to fasten his pants and prepare to leave, he was violently pressed against the wall by Liu Jun Cao, unable to move.
“What are you doing?” Xiaobin questioned loudly.
“Nothing, just want to have some fun with you.” Liu Jun Cao replied in a gangly manner.
“Please let go of me!” Xiaobin sensed something was wrong and tried to break free.
“Aren’t you the same Xiaobin from Minzhong?” Liu Jun embraced yanked Xiaobin’s hair and pressed his head against the wall, adding smugly, “If you don’t obey, I’ll just get you killed.”
Xiaobin gave up struggling. No one outside knew what was happening in the bathroom.
By the time Xiaobin climbed out of the bathroom, the KTV booth had long been empty.
6
Mr. Yang, who was preparing for class, heard his cell phone ring.
“Teacher Yang, this is Xiaobin, I want to take a leave of absence from you on Monday because I’m not feeling well.” Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone was weak, Mr. Yang granted the leave.
On Tuesday, Xiaobin did not appear in the classroom as promised, and after waiting for another day, Ms. Yang found something wrong, called Xiaobin, the phone was switched off, Ms. Yang hurriedly dialed Xiaobin’s mother.
“Your child has not come to school for two days, I can’t reach him.”
“He’s here with me, he said he’s not feeling well and gave you leave.”
Confirming that it was Xiaobin’s mother, Mr. Yang’s hanging heart was relieved. He asked if Xiaobin’s condition was serious, and the answer was no. Put down the phone, Yang teacher’s heart emerged a lot of doubts, he knows a little about Xiaobin’s family situation, Xiaobin’s performance in school is also very clear to everyone, how will suddenly develop to the point of truancy?
At the same time, Xiaobin’s mother was also full of doubts, her son suddenly rushed to her city on Monday, saying that he was not feeling well and needed to rest for two days, at first she was busy with work and did not take it seriously, until Mr. Yang called, she felt that something was wrong.
Xiaobin’s mother thought her son had offended someone at school, or who had a conflict, received a phone call the next day, accompanied her son back to school.
Faced with Yang’s teacher, Xiaobin came up with a fabricated reason, saying he was intimidated. Yang took notes of what Xiaobin said, and then decided to take Xiaobin to the police.
The statement was made by two officers and lasted from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Xiaobin told the story from how he met with Liu Junzuan to how he was repeatedly pestered by Liu, and showed the threatening text messages sent to him by Liu as evidence. However, about their own sexual assault encounter, Xiaobin skipped all – on the way to the police station, he has thought about what to say and what not to say.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. People’s words can be fearful, which may not matter for Liu Jun embrace, but for Xiaobin, not to mention the completion of school, is to be able to continue to live in Kaili are very problematic. Xiaobin can only choose to hide, this is his only way to protect himself from secondary harm.
In the police station, Xiaobin also learned that Liu Juncao because of the fight, has long been a regular visitor here, but almost everything has been “set right” by the Liu family. And Xiaobin reported a simple intimidation, from the criminal law sentencing, only to the extent of administrative detention.
Perhaps it was this alarm that made Liu Jun Cao finally feel that Xiaobin was a tough guy, and since then, he has not played Xiaobin’s idea. After the incident, Xiaobin continued to return to school, everything seems to be no different from before. He said he did not resent Ning Ning, after all, the other party also did not know, he just hated this small town, in the remaining two years, Xiaobin hope that through their own efforts as far as possible to get into a distant university, and then take his mother away together.
7
Even when Xiaobin took him to the police station, Liu Jun embrace did not stop there. Compared to Xiaolin and Xiaobin before, this time, the victims were younger.
Xiaoyu is only 14 years old and has one more year before she has to take the secondary school exam. Until then, Xiaoyu’s life was a step-by-step process according to his parents’ plans, as he had excelled since childhood and was given more discretionary time to stay with his friends.
The city of Kaili has many areas named after numbers, originating from those military enterprises built during the construction of the third line in the early years. The urban expansion that came with the reform and opening up swallowed up the former factories one by one, and “262” is no exception. The former “Long March Radio Factory” has long lost its former glory, and the old factory area was divided up by Qingping South Road, Ningbo Road and Yongfeng East Road. The remaining houses are occupied by bars, restaurants and barbecue restaurants, and several newly built neighborhoods are located around them.
Xiaoyu’s school was located right next to Qingping South Road.
The summer after her second year of junior high school, a friend invited Jade to go to 262 for dinner. Every day after school, Xiaoyu had to pass by there, for the agreed location, he also remembered it by heart. 5 people dinner continued until 10 p.m., when everyone was ready to check out, the boss waved his hand, pointed to their neighboring table and said, “Someone has already paid the bill.”
Xiao Yu was curious as to why the two men at the neighboring table, who were more than ten years older than herself, were so attentive. No sooner had the boss spoken than one of them got up and invited his classmates to sing with him – that man was Liu Jun embraced.
As soon as the group was seated at the KTV, Liu Juncao actively greeted the bartender and two beers were brought up. Xiao Yu poured herself a drink, and the room was soon filled with smoke.
Under the effect of alcohol and “smoke”, Liu Juncao became more excited, and when they came out of the KTV, it was close to 12 o’clock. Liu Juncao again proposed to invite everyone to eat barbecue. The seven people drank some more beer, plus just drank in the KTV, Xiao Yu felt a little dizzy, so she took out her cell phone and was ready to call her family so they could come and pick her up.
However, before the phone can be dialed out, Xiaoyu’s phone was taken away by Liu Juncao. Like a belligerent rooster, Liu Juncao scolded Xiaoyu for “spoiling everyone’s fun” by preparing to leave the stage early. Xiao Yu was also enraged and got up to retrieve her phone, Liu Jun Cao then teased Xiao Yu and ran farther and farther away, everyone thought they were playing around and laughed together.
Not much farther, Liu Juncao deliberately picked a back street alley waiting for Xiaoyu to catch up, while pretending to return the phone to Xiaoyu, while looking around, said: “I have a knife in my bag.”
Xiaoyu was at a loss for words, no one had taught him what to do at this point – the other side was not robbing, but just letting himself go with him.
Liu Juncao has once again succeeded in picking his target through his acquaintances, is far from satisfying his appetite, he began to “take on” himself. The actual fact is that you can’t get a good deal on your own.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do.
Liu Juncao took Xiaoyu to the bridge of the second shopping mall, under the bridge is a marketplace, and the bridge is flanked by fast hotels. Xiao Yu remembers being forced into the hotel room at 4:00 a.m. The desk clerk saw the staggering two men and thought it was just the usual two drunk men getting a room – or a standard room – and naturally did not expect anything to happen. .
The hotel where Xiaoyu was taken to (photo by the author)
After the door of the room was locked with a snap, Liu Juncao turned around and ordered Xiaoyu to undress. Xiao Yu was stunned by this scene. Despite being unable to contact someone who could help him, Xiaoyu insisted on making a last stand, wrapping himself in a quilt – Xiaoyu was very thin, and the seemingly thin quilt wrapped him up tightly.
Liu Jun embraced a few attempts, did not pull the quilt down, then began to threaten Xiaoyu with words. The two of them were in a stalemate for more than an hour, and Liu Juncao never succeeded, the previous “smoke” – to be exact, methamphetamine – was getting weaker and weaker after making him briefly high. Of course, he did not pull out the knife that he claimed to have in his bag, but just chanted to himself, “I want what I have to get ……”
At 5 o’clock, the sky has been able to vaguely reveal the gray, Kerry’s summer day came out very early, and again and again to confirm that Liu Jun embrace no strength to chase out, Xiaoyu immediately jumped out of bed, pick open the room door, with the fastest speed to escape the hotel.
In the second mall of the bridge all the way to the moment, Xiaoyu cried. He said he couldn’t tell anyone what he had gone through, his family and friends were all unable to talk, and after escaping from the hotel, he wandered the streets for a while, waiting until almost 7:00 when he returned home.
He told his parents that he spent the night at a classmate’s house last night and his cell phone ran out of battery, so he didn’t have time to contact them.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about their child, the parents believed his words.
Postscript
From Xiaolin’s initial encounter to Xiaobin’s resistance to Xiaoyu’s lucky escape, nearly three years have passed.
I asked Xiaoyu what substantial impact this incident had on him, he said it was all right, but he was really frightened. Compared to Xiaolin and Xiaobin, he is the lucky one.
After I finished the interviews in August, others would bounce back and forth to reach out to me. One of them, an 18-year-old high school student, told me about his experience: In March this year, Liu Juncao befriended him through the Internet, and he still kept a record of their chats, in which Liu Juncao was still trying to get the teenager out alone.
Coincidentally, the high school student, who also attends the school where Xiaobin used to be, also accidentally found a document called “Information Note on Liu Juncao’s Harassment of Students at Our School” on Mr. Yang’s computer. Although he did not see the specific content inside, the title of this document was enough to trigger his suspicion, and soon, he blacked out Liu Juncao.
The above is just what I learned during my investigation in just a few months. In this small town, there have been as many as nine victims surrounding Liu Juncao over the years, and in fact there may be more. At the time of the incident, Xiaoyu was only 14 years old, but that does not exclude that there are younger victims. But even so, Liu Juncao has never been sanctioned by the law.
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