When we get a little bit older, we sometimes look at younger mothers as being far too young to have children. Some of them are having children in their late teens or even earlier.
It seems as if being a young mother is really not a new problem, but there is something surprising when it comes to Lina Medina.
She was only five years old when they began to notice that her stomach was growing. Doctors felt that she had a tumor but when they did further investigation and ran some tests, they found out that she was actually seven months pregnant. She had been raped, which led to the pregnancy.
In a few months, she gave birth to a baby boy and he was healthy. It had to be done via cesarean section, but everything went smoothly.
Lina is now 80 years old but she still holds the record of being the youngest woman who had ever given birth. Her age at the time of the birth was five years and seven months.
She was born in Peru on September 23, 1933. It seemed to be a rather good family life for her, as her father was a silversmith and her mother was a house maker.
The police did arrest the father on suspicion of incest after the birth but they were never able to gather the evidence necessary to follow through on it. The father’s identity still remains a secret.
When Lina gave birth on May 14, 1939, the baby boy was named Geraldo to honor the doctor that delivered him. He was healthy and weighed 6 pounds.
After doing some further investigation, they found out that the young girl suffered from a condition known as precocious puberty. Even her mother admitted that she began having her menstrual cycle at the age of three and at the age of five, her sexual organs were fully matured.
At first, they told Geraldo that Lina was his sister but he was told the truth at the age of 10. He continued to be healthy but in 1979, he died from bone disease at the age of 40.
Lina is still alive and living in Peru. She is 85 years old, but she doesn’t want her story sold because she just wants to continue a normal life. She is married and had another son with her husband when she was 39.