Mexican girl, aged 9, has baby

waltky · Feb 8, 2013

Nine-year-old Mexican girl gives birth...

Mexican girl, 9, has child, authorities look for father
Fri, Feb 08, 2013 - A nine-year-old Mexican girl has given birth and authorities are looking for the presumed father, who is 17, officials said on Wednesday.

The girl, identified as Dafne, gave birth by Cesarean section to a baby girl weighing 2.7kg and measuring 50cm on Jan. 27 in a hospital in the western state of Jalisco. The girl was not seen by doctors during her pregnancy and was almost in labor when she arrived at the hospital, said Enrique Rabago, director of the Occidente General Hospital where the child gave birth in the town of Zapopan. It is dismaying that a young girl became pregnant. You shouldnt be pregnant at this age, Rabago told a news conference. A Caesarean section was carried out because it was safer for the mother and baby, he said. The two were released in good condition and they will have an extensive follow-up in the coming days due to the mothers age.

The hospital notified the authorities of the birth. Sources in the Jalisco state prosecutors office said that the girl declared that she had consensual sex. The girl and the teenager were a couple, the source said. The boy offered that the girl live with him when he found out she was pregnant, but she refused. However, Jorge Villasenor, an official at the prosecutors office, described the encounter as a case of rape or child abuse. We are looking for the young man to get his story because she does not understand what has happened. This is a rape or child sex abuse case, he said on Tuesday.

Dafnes mother said the girl was eight when she became pregnant. The father is 17, but we have not found him, since he ran away, the mother told reporters. A source close to the investigation said Dafne comes from a large family in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, a village about 30km from Guadalajara. There are 11 siblings. Apparently their parents are separated and there was little care by the mother with so many children, the source said.

Each year, 480,000 girls between the ages of 14 and 18 give birth in Mexico, according to the health ministry. There are pregnancies among teenagers, but girls between 10 and 12 years old are exceptions and most of the time it is due to a rape, said Antonio Flores Villalon, a reproductive health specialist in Mexico City. Girls are still growing at that age. They are physically immature, and this puts them at higher risk, he said. This is the case for all minors who are under 18, but when they are under 15, the risks increase.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2013/02/08/2003554549
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Anders Hoveland · Feb 8, 2013

waltky said: ↑

Dafne comes from a large family in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, a village about 30km from Guadalajara. “There are 11 siblings. Apparently their parents are separated and there was little care by the mother with so many children,” the source said.
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Yep, very typical. Start young and keep on churning out all those babies...

This is exactly why the United States should excercise a little more caution who it takes in.

The fertility rate for women of Hispanic origin was 97.5 live births per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years, which is 50 percent higher than the rate for non-Hispanic women. For women of Mexican origin the rate was 112.3 per 1,000. (National Center for Health Statistics, most recent statistics collected in 1981 )

Angedras · Feb 8, 2013

What the hell are wrong with people?!

I'm pleased she and baby are alright, but still find the behavior disgusting.

...coming soon to a city near you (in the U.S.). *sigh*

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