Will not give birth again as doctors sterilise her
against her mother's wishes:
Nine-year-old girl gives birth in Mexico
9 February Daily Mail
The nine year old girl who gave birth in Mexico will never have
another child after she was sterilized by the doctors who delivered her
baby against her family's wishes, it was revealed .The youngster was
given the procedure following the shock delivery without the consent of
her own mother. She has now reported the Zoquipan Hospital in
Guadalajara to the local human rights commission which is investigating.
The development came as MailOnline obtained the first pictures of her
mother and stepfather, who live in a poor suburb of Guadalajara called
Colonial Los Olivos.MailOnline is not naming them to protect the child's
identity.Last night the family - and the newborn baby girl named by a
local newspaper as Maria de Los Angeles - fled their 7ft by 25ft breeze
block home in a taxi just hours before police and the local mayor showed
up to speak with them.Lurid claims have been made by neighbours against
the stepfather, including that he has abused one of his own biological
daughters and used to beat Dafne and share a bath with her.Dafne's baby
was born on January 27 in Zoquipan Hospital, in Zapopan, Mexico's
western Jalisco state weighting 5.95lbs.
Dafne was eight at the time she got pregnant but she didn't realize
she was expecting until she was seven months gone.
According to Guadalajara's Mural newspaper, the girl's mother who
can't read or write didn't even think that it was a crime that somebody
so young having sex could be a criminal offence until she turned up at
the hospital with her daughter in labour.The father was at first thought
to be Dafne's boyfriend who may be aged between 15 and 17.But DNA
testing is being carried out among all of her male relatives to confirm
who is the dad amid extraordinary claims that the stepfather may even be
the father.
The respected El Occidental newspaper said that Dafne could have been
raped multiple times over several months but claimed that it was never
violent.It also claimed that after seven months of the pregnancy when
everyone found out her boyfriend he asked her to run away with him, but
she refused. The authorities are hunting him after he fled following the
birth.
Neighbours in Colonial los Olivos told MailOnline that they were
relieved that the stepfather, in his mid 40s, had left even if it was
only for a short time.They said he used to beat Dafne and sometimes
their rows would spill out into the street where he would continue to
hit her.
They also claimed he slept in the same bed as her and shared a bath
and that he was abusing her just as he did his biological daughter, for
which they claim he had spent time in jail.A relative of the stepfather
told MailOnline: ‘What he has done has shamed our family.'I don't know
why the girl's mother lets him carry on the way he has.
They're both liars and I think it's terrible what has happened.‘Dafne
is a child. She's just a child. The girl's mother is in love with him so
she protects him, and this is what happens'.Dafne has been dubbed ‘baby
mother’ by Mexican newspapers, a pun on the term usually used to refer
to the mother of a child, and not the fact she is still a youngster
herself.
She has 10 brothers and sisters and is said to be doing well and
happy that the birth is over.Dafne is also the ‘caretaker’ of her family
she does not go to school, instead spending all day in her home cooking
and only venturing out to go to the shops.Neighbours said on the rare
occasions they saw her outside she sometimes was only wearing a towel.
They also claim that the girl's mother, in her early 40s, works as a
prostitute and was trying to recruit Dafne to becoming a sex worker
too.Metro newspaper reported that they fear that she may have AIDS which
she passed on to Dafne, and therefore on her baby too.In addition, there
are fears there may be long lasting consequences to Dafne's body because
of the hormone imbalances brought about by having a child so young.the
girl's mother reported the hospital to the Jalisco Human Rights
Commission but only appears to have done so after doctors notified local
prosecutors about the birth.Under Mexican law it is a crime to have sex
with anyone under 15, even if they give consent.
The hospital had not been tracking her case and only became aware
when Dafne was brought in about to give birth, surrounded by anxious
family members.
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