Could you guess the age of the world's youngest mom? Your speculation might not even come close.
She was 5 years old.
A Peruvian girl named Linda Medina was brought by her parents from their home in the Andean village of Ticrapo to the hospital due to the abnormally huge swell of her abdomen. What was first thought of as a tumor shocked the doctors as test later proved that what caused such swelling was her progressing pregnancy which was at that time on the 7th month. After having confirmed this, Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the attending doctor and chief physician if the Hospital of Pisco, took the girl to another hospital in Lima, Peru to have other specialists confirm his diagnosis. And on May 14, 1939; Lina gave birth to a 5 lbs and 9 ozs baby boy, named after her doctor, through caesarean section as her small pelvis does not make normal delivery possible.
The father of the baby boy nor the circumstances on how Lina was impregnated remains unknown until now. Her father was arrested as suspect for rape and incest but the lack of evidence resulted to his later release. It is presumed that Lina does not actually know herself who has caused her fate as she was not able to let out precise answers. Lina , who is now 75
years old, has not granted interviews which may mean that the identity of her son Gerardo will remain unknown.Though some abnormalities that causes maturity to young girls is not unheard of. Lina's case was one of the rarest few. The youngest known mother in the medical history was said to have had her first menstruation at the very young age of 8 months and had them regularly at 3. By the time of her pregnancy, she also had fully developed breasts.
No this is not a hoax. And it's quite hard to take in but this is true. Over the years, a good number of doctors have attested to this based on the records of photographs, biopsies and Xrays of the baby in Lina's womb taken by the doctors who attended to her care.
This story has undoubtedly resulted from the corrupt act of a child molester. It's sad that Lina Medina has to become a part of the medical history through having been impregnated at the age of 5. But I doubt if her medical condition of extremely precocious puberty or full sexual development in childhood would have been brought to the attention of specialist if not for the incident.
