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A schoolgirl’s parents took the law into their own hands when they publicly shamed a man by tying him to a lamppost after he allegedly tried to molest their daughter.

Reports said the 50-year-old man, surnamed Xu, is accused of repeatedly following a young junior high student from her school, through a shopping mall, to her residential complex, all the time trying to get her to stop along the way.

The girl from the city of Yuyao in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, is said to have tried to avoid Xu's alleged harassment by speeding up her footsteps.

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But witnesses claim he kept grabbing her arm to try to prevent her from leaving and only let go when the girl screamed and ran away.

After the schoolgirl told her parents about the incident, the girl’s mother and father followed the girl to and from school one day and allegedly caught Xu in the act.

Her father hid behind the schoolgirl to lure him near before jumping out to grab him.

Xu reportedly told her father he "wanted to make the schoolgirl his daughter" before her dad slapped him around the face.

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The vigilante parents then beat him up before tying him to a lamppost and calling the police.

The gathering crowd photographed the parent's attack and applauded their intervention, calling them "Super Parents".

Authorities later arrived to arrest Xu and he reportedly confessed to the crime during questioning.

Police confirmed the girl wasn't hurt but added that "tying up someone to a pole is not something we recommend doing".