A mother in east China's Shandong Province attempted suicide yesterday after police said her 15-year-old daughter had consented to sex with four men the girl claimed gang-raped her.
The woman, surnamed Kang, drank pesticide in the morning because police in Tai'an City had let the family down, her lawyer said yesterday.
This comes amid claims of collusion between the men involved and officers.
Last night, Xinhua news agency reported that two men, surnamed Huang and Liu, said to be among four men involved in the incident, had been held by police on rape charge.
Lawyer Wang Wanqiong, wrote on his Weibo microblog account that Kang had received emergency treatment and is now out of danger.
A police investigation had concluded that Kang's daughter, surnamed Jiao, had sex voluntarily with the four men.
"Jiao didn't put up a fight, she actively cooperated," police cited the men as saying.
Kang described the police report as "the biggest shame in my life."
In a posting on her Weibo account on Thursday, she said: "I will fight until the end. If I can't wait for justice, I would rather die with my child."
Writing on her Weibo account yesterday Jiao said: "What happened harmed my mother and she couldn't stand it any longer."
The case gained national prominence last week after The Beijing News reported that a gang of thugs and drug users have for several years raped girls, aged between 11 and 15, in Banjiudian Town.
Far from seeking to stop this, police colluded with the gang, it was claimed.
The incident involving Jiao and another girl, then aged 13, took place on December 29 last year at a hotel in Banjiudian.
An anonymous police official claimed that the accused had asked the city police to help smooth over the incident.
"We didn't have any choice," a police official is allegedly heard saying in recordings provided by Jiao's family.