A woman from Peru named Lina Medina, who is now 91 years old, entered the record book because she gave birth to a child at the age of 5,being the youngest mother in the world.
Lina was born in 1933 in Ticrapo, a poor village in Peru.
Weird was that her tummy began to grow at only 5 years old and her parents thought that someone cast a spell on the little girl and she was subjected to several rituals but this didn't work and the parents took their child to the nearest hospital that was 70 km away.The doctor thought that the girl was fighting a tumor and made several checks.They were shocked to find that Lina was in 7th month pregnant.
The strange thing is that the sexual organs were already fully developed which is extremely difficult at that age.
On May 14, 1939, Lina gave birth to a 2.7 kg baby named Gerardo,like the name of the doctor who operated on her. The baby was born by cesarean section because the little girl's pelvis was too small.And because of this,Lina is official named the youngest mother in the world.
Gerardo Medina, Lina's child lived up to the age of 40 years due to a disease in the spinal cord.
After all, the doctors found out how Lina could give life to a child at such a young age.
Lina suffered from precocious puberty which causes the sexual organs to develop by the age of maximum 8.This disease is rare, a case by 10,000 children.
Police assumed that Lina was sexually abused but Lina did not give a concrete answer and never revealed the identity of her child's father.
Lina gave birth to her second child at the age of 39.
Currently, Lina is 91 years old and lives in a village in the capital of Lima.
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