BEIJING-a Chinese farmer has called the death sentence he got for raping 116 women, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.

Dai Qingcheng, 46, received the death penalty in December for raping women between 1993 and 2009 in the Eastern Province of Anhui in Eastern China, the China Daily reported.

The paper said he appealed to the higher people's Court in Anhui Province, but said no when the case would be treated.

Dai usually preyed on women migrant workers who had gone to bigger cities for work, says the report. His victims ranged from young girls to women in the 1950s and included a woman who was six months pregnant.

The China Daily quoted police as saying Dai evaded capture for so long because some of his victims were too ashamed to go to the police.

The Dai lawyer during his trial, Ming Tian, told the newspaper that he didn't expect the appeal to be successful that had because there is no new evidence. He has not said what Dai was based his appeal on.

Insists that the Court went unanswered Tuesday.

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