Believe it or get aghast by it, but it’s true! And the record was made in the year 1939, in the month of May...one day after Mothers’ Day! A peak of shocking news even today, it says that we have a 5-year-old enlisted to be the youngest mother ever. Now, here I see a wide-awestruck-mouth.

Lina Medina is the girl who became the youngest mother in recorded medical history. She gave birth to a baby boy when she herself was just five.

Lina, the Peruvian child, delivered a 5-pound, 8-ounce son through caesarean section even though her petite pelvis made it unfeasible for the baby to traverse the birth tube. A comprehensive report confirmed Medina’s early sexual maturity. The girl faced her first menstrual cycle at the very early age of eight months and her family witnessed her almost fuller breasts when she was four.

Such state is known as precocious puberty in medical terms. The lot at that time didn’t believe the uncommon news but the doctor’s reports and X-Ray photograph forced them to change their opinions. The photograph verified her pregnancy as well as the level of her sexual growth.

Lina’s baby was healthy, later named Gerardo. Although his mother’s proper identity was exposed to him when he was ten, he was nurtured normally. But he expired from a bone-marrow disease when he was just forty.

The person behind Lina’s pregnancy is behind the viel till date. Her father was handcuffed on suspicion of rape but was set free later for lack of sufficient proof. Lina is still alive and still wonders who it could have been!

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