ROWLAND HEIGHTS, Calif. (AP) " A so-called "parachute kid" from China who was involved in a brutal attack on a Southern California classmate is going to prison. All were "parachute kids" " Chinese teens who live with paid host families while attending U.S. high schools. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/29FIyho ) says Zheng Lu received a three-year sentence on Tuesday for last year's attack in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. Authorities say Zheng and others kidnapped an 18-year-old classmate and took her to a Rowland Heights park where she was stripped naked, beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to eat her own hair. ___Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/

Source: New Zealand Herald July 12, 2016 23:48 UTC