Sexual Assault of a Young Girl · Full chronicle and history

On October 15, Douyin blogger "Changchang Changduan" posted an undercover investigation video exposing a dark web app involving child sexual exploitation, saying it had formed a profit chain of secretly filming and sexually assaulting one's own daughter and selling the videos, with sections including paid videos and trades of date-rape drugs, and stating that the evidence had been submitted to the police in a real-name report; the video received about 212,000 likes within 12 hours of being posted.

Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.

An undercover investigation by Hebei Economic Television found that in Xianyu's pornographic traffic-generation industry chain, some customer service agents claim they can provide minors, with the youngest being only 14 years old, at prices reaching 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

A security team leader at Agile Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou, is suspected of having abused children over a long period since around 2020, with at least 4 known victims, the youngest only eight or nine years old, and of having filmed nearly 200 videos. He was placed in criminal detention by police this September.

After Lin applied for criminal reconsideration, the Junlian County Public Security Bureau's reconsideration decision on August 10 still maintained the refusal to file a case.

CCTV cited data from the Ministry of Public Security stating that the number of criminal cases nationwide decreased by 16.1% year-on-year from January to May. However, the phenomenon of multiple regions investing financially in expanding detention centers and prisons has led to external doubts about the real public security situation.

After the case was accepted, it remained unhandled for a long time; Lin attempted suicide by slashing his or her wrist shortly afterward, and his or her lawyer says Lin was subsequently diagnosed with severe depression by a hospital.

In late May 2026, a blogger revealed that on the Douyin platform there were violating communities using obscure code words such as "wearing a little cotton-padded jacket" to exchange and share experiences of sexually assaulting underage girls; on the 27th, Douyin responded saying it had indefinitely banned the relevant accounts and group chats.

In 2025, Hong Kong recorded a total of 89,137 criminal cases, 50% more than the 59,225 cases in 2019. Among them, 43,212 were fraud cases, accounting for half, with victims defrauded of HK$8.1 billion. Fraud cases have multiplied fivefold from fewer than 10,000 in 2019.

Data shows that in 2024, the annual number of criminal cases filed by Chinese police (Public Security) exceeded 10 million, a sharp increase compared to 2000, with the majority of short-sentence cases involving various "pocket crimes."