Picture of Guo Gang at training.

Guo Gang's release certificate.

Guo Gang is a 17-year-old student who saved a woman from harassment on the bus. However, his righteous behavior not only went unrewarded, he was actually punished for it. Recently his story was posted on Weibo, and many netizens are forwarding and reposting it, hoping to locate the female victim to testify for him.

On March 23, 2015, Guo and his friends took a bus from Dujiangyan to Luzhou in Sichuan province. On the bus they saw a man around 30 years old pawing at a girl who was clearly uncomfortable with his advances. When they arrived at Luzhou, the man even held the girl to stop her from leaving. After they confirmed with the girl that she did not know the man, Guo and his friends tried to stop him. They got into a fight, during which the girl ran away. Guo called an ambulance for the man after he fainted.

At the hospital, the man was declared to have several significant injuries and level VII disability as a result of the fight. On August 4, 2015, Guo was accused of intentionally injuring the man.

Guo has always been a top student at school. However, because of the incident, he did not even get to take the national college entrance exam. And because of the charges against him, no company wants to hire him. On April 18, Guo was sentenced to two years and six months in prison with three years’ probation. He was fined 157,173.76 yuan.

Now Guo’s former classmates and teachers are trying to help him to find the victim so she can testify on Guo’s behalf.