Li Tianyi Claims Rape Victim Was a Hostess, Pleads Innocent
by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, July 16, 2013
by Peter Barefoot on Tuesday, July 16, 2013
From Sina:
Li Tianyi’s Party Accuses Victim of Being a Hostess, Pleas Innocence
According to Shenzhen Evening News, Li X is being publicly prosecuted for being involved in a gang-rape case. There are lots of twists and turns among his attorneys–first, two attorneys have resigned from the case, and now this new attorney claims they’re going to plea innocent.
Yesterday [July 14], an insider revealed to the reporter of this article the reason the attorneys resigned, and he also revealed that because Li X is a juvenile, his guardians must be present when he’s brought to the trail. Every time when Li X meets them he’d ask “when will you come again”, which makes his mother determined to “save” her son.
Why did the two attorneys resign from the case?
The client’s demands are too difficult to achieve
As it is understood, Li X’s first attorney resigned from the case because “the case is complicated, he’s unable to fulfill the client’s demands”.
The insider revealed that when the crime was first discovered, Li X’s mother had already completely “freaked out”, and had gone through friends to find lawyer Yuan Chenghui of Beijing City Weiheng Law Firm to be her son’s attorney.
The insider claims that because some of the client’s ideas/desires made the attorney feel they would be very difficult to achieve through the legal process, the first attorney resigned from the case in early March.
Xue Zhenyuan, the second attorney for Li X Case asked to resign on May 20. His reason for resigning is also that “there are some reasons that are inconvenient and unable to be spoken”.
Why do they want the attorney to plea not guilty?
They think the case doesn’t match what has been reported
As it is understood, when Li X was first arrested, Li’s family already had doubts about this case: Was the girl involved a hostess at the bar [someone who drinks and gives company to customers for money]?
According to the insider, Li’s family learned from Li X’s own mouth that when he was drinking during the night the incident happened, those with Li X at the scene were not only the 5 people involved in this case but also Li X’s other friends.
When leaving the bar, the girl didn’t resist, and here Li X and his friends parted ways. When [Li X, the girl, and the other people involved in this case] arrived at the hotel, the victim didn’t show any sign of obvious resistance, nor was the victim’s state of “drunkenness” clear.
Although these details contradict the reports of many press, Li’s family still believe there were so many people at the scene who can testify, and furthermore, the hotel also has surveillance footage. Therefore, Li X’s mother and others concerned want the attorney to enter a plea of not guilty.
According to Mr. Liu who has worked in the involved bar Global Club, bars and other kind of nightclubs often have female hostesses to fill up the venue. They are young, beautiful, all dressed up, and are paid a fixed 200 yuan per day by the bar or nightclub.
