Underaged mother : Youth taken into custody [October 02 2010]

L.S. Ananda Wedaarachchi

A youth was taken into custody in connection with an incident in which  a fourteen year old girl had given  birth to a baby at the Borella Castle Street Hospital.

National Child Protection Authority Chairman Anoma Dissanayaka said that the  statement made by  the girl was found to be contradictory.  A DNA test will be held to  prove the paternity of the baby, she said.