11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth in Ukraine
Healthy Baby Boy Weighed in at 8.4 Pounds
KIEV, Ukraine (Jan. 22) - Ukraine's youngest ever mother on record, an 11-year-old girl, has given birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 8.4 pounds, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Surgeons at hospital No. 5 in the eastern city of Kharkiv delivered the infant by Caesarean section on Tuesday, the Fakty daily said, citing the unidentified mother's doctor, Valentyn Gryshchenko.
Both mother and son are in good health, but will remain in the hospital under observation for a week.
The family of the sixth-grader refused to stop the pregnancy and "put everything in the hands of fate," Gryshchenko was quoted as saying.
The boy is expected to live at home with his mother and grandmother.
The newborn's alleged father is a 26-year-old neighbor who fled fearing criminal charges when he learned of the girl's pregnancy, Fakty said. If convicted of having sexual relations with a minor, the father faces a maximum prison sentence of three years.
Max three years for having sex with an 11 year old? I think the alleged should be sentenced to the victims age, 10 fold. So 110 years.
Thank goodness the baby and her survived