A 10-year-old Mexican girl has
given birth to a baby boy after a 31-week pregnancy, according to reports.
The premature infant, which
weighed 3.3 pounds, was born by Caesarian section at the Women’s Hospital in
the city of
The young mother, who is from
the nearby San Francisco Totimehuacan community, has
returned home after the procedure but visits the baby every day to breastfeed,
officials said.
The
Mexican state laws say young
moms are unable to have abortions unless a girl can prove she was the victim of
sexual assault.
The state’s minimum age of
consent is 12 and women who undergo abortions in
The laws are currently under
review.
The girl, who has not been
named, arrived at the medical facility on Oct. 22, suffering from
life-threatening complications, including seizures.
Hospital officials said the
newborn is in a good condition considering his premature birth and the mother
is recovering well.
This is not the first case of a
shockingly young girl giving birth in
In August last year, 11-year-old
Amalia had a child two weeks premature after she was
denied an abortion by the local Justice Department during the fourth month of
pregnancy.
She was raped repeatedly by her
stepfather when she was 10 years old, but local laws do not allow terminations
after three months.