A nine-year-old girl has been declared one of the youngest mothers in the world after giving birth to a baby boy in the Chinese province of Changchun.
The schoolgirl was taken to a hospital in the north-east of the country where doctors determined she was eight and a half months pregnant. She later gave birth to a baby boy by cesarean section. Both mother and son are reportedly in good health.
A view of Changchun China, where a nine-year-old school girl recently gave birth to a baby boy by cesarean section. The girl's family say they reported the pregnancy to police and the identity of the father is currently under investigation.
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A view of Changchun China, where a nine-year-old school girl recently gave birth to a baby boy by cesarean section. The girl's family say they reported the pregnancy to police and the identity of the father is currently under investigation.
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In this photo taken on Dec. 26, 2009 and released by Bo Ai Hospital, nurses attend Li Jingchao with a chopstick poked into his nose before the surgery at the Bo Ai Hospital in Beijing. a 14-month-old boy is recovering after doctors removed a chopstick from his brain that accidentally poked up through his nose.
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The girl’s family said they have reported her pregnancy to the police and an investigation is underway to find the newborn’s father. Sex with anyone under the age of 14 is automatically treated as rape in the province and carries with it a lengthy prison sentence.
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reports that a hospital in China's largest city, Shanghai, recently said that about 30 per cent of abortions were performed on school-aged girls.
The record of youngest mother in the world is currently held by five-year-old Lina Medina of Peru, who gave birth to a six-pound son in 1939. Her father was arrested on suspicion of rape, but was eventually released due to a lack of evidence.
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