Background
Li Tianyi was born in Beijing in 1996. His father Li Shuangjiang and mother Meng Ge are both famous singers.
李天一
Li Tianyi was born in Beijing in 1996. His father Li Shuangjiang and mother Meng Ge are both famous singers.
Li attended Zhongguancun Third Primary School and the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China. Later, he went to the United States and attended Shattuck-Saint Mary"s in Faribault, Minnesota.
In 2011, Li Tianyi assaulted a middle-aged couple over a traffic dispute and threatened witnesses. He was driving a Bayerische Motoren Werke with no license plates at the time. As a result, he was sentenced to a year in detention, and his father issued a public apology.
In July 2013, Li, then aged 17, was arrested on charges of taking part in a gang-rape of a woman in a Beijing hotel together with four others
The trial of the five defendants began in late August, 2013. Li denied having sex with the woman, who he said was a prostitute.
On September 26, 2013, a Chinese court convicted Li and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The court characterized the sentence as lenient because he was a juvenile offender, even though he was the ringleader of the gang.