 world’s youngest mother |
|
<< Previous page | 1 | Next page >> |
By: thetelegraaf
3/11/2009
10:11 pm Yahoo! Profile:
thetelegraaf Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Lina Medinaâs parents thought their five-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumour and when shamans in their remote village in Peruâs Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to hospital.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy.
Aged five years, seven months and 21-days-old when her child was born by Caesarean section in May 1939, Medina made medical history, and is still the youngest known mother in the world. At the time, Peruâs government promised aid that never materialised. Six decades on, Medina lives with her husband in a cramped house in a poor, crime-ridden district of Lima known as âLittle Chicago.â
Now 68, she keeps to herself and has long refused requests to rake up the past. Gerardo, the son she delivered while still a child herself, died in 1979 at the age of 40. But a new book, written by an obstetrician who has been interested in her case, has drawn fresh attention to Medinaâs story, and raised the prospect that the Peruvian government may belatedly offer her financial and other assistance. âThe government condemned them to live in poverty. In any other country, they would be the objects of special care,â Jose Sandoval, author of Mother Aged 5, said.
It is currently trying to contact Medina and her family. Medinaâs husband, Raul Jurado, said his wife remained sceptical. âShe got no help (in 1939) that I know about,â he said. âShe thinks governments never deliver. Maybe today there will be a promise that will never come true.â
Jurado said his wife, whose story is a medical textbook classic and whose case is confirmed as true by such bodies as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, had turned down Reutersâ request for an interview.
No one has ever established who was the father of Medinaâs child, or confirmed she became pregnant after being raped.
One of nine children born to country folk in Ticrapo, an Andean village at an altitude of 7,400 feet in Peruâs poor ... |
|
By: thetelegraaf
3/11/2009
10:13 pm Yahoo! Profile:
thetelegraaf Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020827/asp/foreign/ story_1140311.asp |
|
By: dallone.ranger
3/11/2009
11:17 pm Yahoo! Profile:
dallone.ranger Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| In 1994, according to a newspaper clipping I have, the youngest ever mother was a 8 year old girl from Arkansas in the USA, she had twins. |
|
|
<< Previous page | 1 | Next page >> |
world’s youngest mother |
|
