Parents accompany their children, who were victims of sexual assaults by their teacher at a primary school at Douchengou village, Huanggang town of Tongbai county in Nanyang city in Central China's Henan province, to receive medical re-evaluations at a health center in Maoji county on May 25, 2013. According to the medical results from Friday, nine of the 16 female students had their hymens broken while it was also discovered that other students had received some sort of physical harm from their teacher.

Yang Shifu, the 56-year-old teacher, has been arrested on charges of sexual assault, said police in Tongbo county on Sunday.

It was discovered that Yang had been molesting his students for many years, which is what local villagers first reported to dahe.cn, an affiliated website of the Henan Daily Newspaper Group. [Photo/CFP]