Nine-year-old gives birth in China

Happy Father’s Day!

The only good news is “In Songyuan, sex with a child under the age of 14 attracts a mandatory rape conviction and jail sentence.”  Sources at the hospital say it is “Not known how she had become pregnant” which makes me seriously wonder about medical education in China. The only thing worse than this 9 year old giving birth is the last sentence that mentions the 5 year old Peruvian girl.

At this time I would like to revel in my cultural imperialism and do a superiority dance. I live in a culture that will not let elementary school girls who’ve been raped and impregnated carry to term and I’m damn glad of it.

Nine-year-old gives birth: report
February 4, 2010  |  www.smh.com.au

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, from Songyuan, in China’s north-east, was taken to hospital in nearby Changchun when she was 8½ months pregnant, the Daily Mail reported.

The schoolgirl gave birth two days later, on January 27, to a healthy boy weighing 2.7 kilograms, reported 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.