Chinese teacher sentenced to life for students' rape

A court in China's Ningxia Hui region said on Saturday it has sentenced a kindergarten teacher to life in prison for sexually assaulting 12 girls.

The court found Huang Zhenxin guilty of raping 12 of his students, Xinhua reported.

Huang was a teacher in a rural kindergarten in Lingwu city.

The kindergarten school offered compensation to the victims.