10-year-old gives birth

[Aella]

10-year-old gives birth

28 September 2007


BRUSSELS – A ten-year-old girl from Charleroi gave birth to a baby last year. The father was 13.


"The pregnancy was a big surprise to the girl and her mother," says doctor Robert Chef from Charleroi. "The child came to me with unexplained abdominal pain. She had also put on weight. Her mother had even put her on a diet for a while but that had little effect. When we examined her it turned out she was nine months pregnant. The child was carrying a full term baby."


What surprised the doctor the most was that the 10-year-old really looked her age. "Some girls look like a teenager of 15 or 16 at that age. But not this girl."


Still the delivery went smoothly. The young mother was given special treatment however. She was not admitted to the regular maternity ward lest this raise too many curious questions. She was given a bed in the children's ward.

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"The father of the baby came to visit her there as well. Many pregnancies in young girls are the result of incest. But that was not at all the case here. The father was a schoolmate of 13. A young guy as well."


Robert Chef says the parents of the girl did not respond angrily. "The grandmother immediately took charge of the baby. She said she would raise it as her own child."


Yesterday the medical weekly De Huisarts reported that 57 Belgian 10-year-olds had been prescribed a birth control pill last year. Some for medical reasons, but others for actual birth control.
[Copyright Expatica News 2007]

source: 10-year-old gives birth, Belgian News, Belgium, Expatica

There's so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to start.

[nwgirl]

10? Good God, I didn't even know girls could menstrate that early. And I'm sure the mother of the girl, now the grandmother, will do just a bang up job with this kid as well, considering that her ten year old was having sex and she didn't have any clue the kid was pregnant.

[A*O]

It's quite common for girls to start menstruating around 10yrs old. Unfortunately most of them don't understand or aren't told they are therefore fertile. I have a problem with a 10yr old having sex in the first place, let alone getting pregnant. Charleroi is a very rough industrial zone with huge social problems anyway, but Belgium as a whole seems to have it's share of weird stuff going on, eg, abductions of young girls who are then kept in the basement for years of sexual abuse.

[AliceInWonderland]

holy fuck for fucks sake. just sad. say goodbye to your short childhood (im still living mine @25!)

[LynnieD]

Oh my......oh my fucking god. Wow. I'm at a loss.

[HelpMeRhonda]

That poor girl, what a life she must have..and it will continue to get worse.

[MrsMarsters]

Wouldn't the best thing be to have the child adopted?

[HelpMeRhonda]

Originally Posted by MrsMarsters

Wouldn't the best thing be to have the child adopted?

Her and her baby!

[Shalev]

What....?! that's insane!

[stylejunkiex]

WTF are 10 year olds doing having sex? I was still playing with dolls at 10 years old and that was less than 10 years ago. Jesus Christ.

[AliceInWonderland]

^ yeah no kidding; its pretty fuckin' sick imo.

[stylejunkiex]

Also, how can you think it's pure weight gain? Do you NOT feel the baby kicking or notice the lack of periods? Some people need a good old fashioned smack upside the head. Jeez.

[AliceInWonderland]

i just dont know, if i were 10 i'd be pretty clueless and/or scared shitless poor little girl, i just can't imagine

[Beeyotch]

She probably didn't know a thing about pregnancy or periods, she may not have even had one yet.

[AliceInWonderland]

i know, i dont think i knew about that shit yet. the sex yeah b/c some christian bible thumpers told me about that when i was like 7 but the other stuff NO!