Last updated 12:04 04/02/2010
A nine-year-old girl has reportedly become one of the world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a baby boy in China.
The girl comes from Songyuan, in China's north-east, and was taken to hospital in nearby Changchun when she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, the Daily Mail reported.
The schoolgirl gave birth two days later, on January 27, to a healthy boy weighing 2.7kg, according to Chinese newspaper the City Evening News.
Her family has refused to discuss the pregnancy but said they had reported it to police.
In Songyuan, sex with a child under the age of 14 attracts a mandatory rape conviction and jail sentence, the Daily Mail reported.
Police were reportedly trying to find out who the baby's father was.
A nurse told the City Evening News the girl "looked very mature" but it was not known how she had become pregnant.
The youngest documented mother was Peruvian girl Lina Medina, who gave birth to a boy by caesarean section when she was five-years-old, in 1939.
From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/3293138/Nine-year-old-gives-birth-report
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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