ABC News reported on Friday that a 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth to a baby daughter, making the girl one of the youngest mothers ever.
Despite the high-risk pregnancy, the baby was healthy, reports say.
The girl is reportedly from the northern Colombian town of Manaure, and delivered a 5-pound daughter by Cesarean section. The girl is unidentified.
(She) arrived at the hospital in tears and “enormous pain” from the contractions, according to Univision’s Primer Impacto.
The child is a member of the Wayuu people, an indigenous tribe, the report says. “Giving birth at a young age is said to be typical of Wayuu customs,” the U.K. Telegraph reports.
The age of the father is unclear, but police reportedly can’t press charges because the tribe has its own jurisdiction. Colombian media suggested the father could be 15 years old, while others say the dad is a 30-year-old, according to the Telegraph.
ABC reports:
“We’ve already seen several cases (of pregnancy) in girls of the Wayuu ethnicity,” Efraín Pacheco Casadiego, director of the hospital where the girl gave birth, told RCN La Radio noticias. “When in fact (the girls) should be playing with dolls, they are having to care for a baby.