{"id":23861,"date":"2025-01-05T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=23861"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:16:43","slug":"the-story-of-lina-medina-worlds-youngest-mother","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=23861","title":{"rendered":"The story of Lina Medina \u2013 world\u2019s youngest mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve read a lot of stories about young mothers over the years. But stories like this one prove that the human body still contains many mysteries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And despite all of the scientific advances that have been made over the years, the human body can still surprise us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Teenage pregnancy\u00a0 can be difficult to talk about. But it\u2019s nothing compared to child pregnancy. In most cases, it involves the sexual exploitation of minors and a mother who is in no way repared to be a parent.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s hard to imagine what life was form Lina Medina , the youngest confirmed mother in medical history. She was only five years, seven months, and 21 days old when she gave birth to a son.<\/p>\n

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And yet, the man who raped the little girl never got punished.<\/p>\n

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Lina Medina was born in 1933\u00a0in the poor, remote city of Ticrapo, Peru. She lived in cramped living quarters with her parents and eight siblings.<\/p>\n

When Lina was four, her dad noticed something strange: his daughter\u2019s stomach started blowing up like a balloon.<\/p>\n

After a while, Lina\u2019s large stomach was the talk of the town, and several people believed she had a \u201cdemon\u201d inside her. Her father even contacted healers and shamans to see what they could do to remove it.<\/p>\n

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Nothing worked, and Lina\u2019s family started to suspect that she had a tumor. Finally, they walked to the city of Pisco and brought the little girl to the city\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n

There they met Gerardo Lozado, a doctor who, like Lina\u2019s parents, first suspected that she had a tumor.<\/p>\n

But soon, he discovered that he was wrong\u2014and the shocking truth was revealed.<\/p>\n

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Lina was seven months pregnant.<\/p>\n

The doctor couldn\u2019t believe his eyes. He called in distinguished specialists\u00a0from the capital, Lima. But they only confirmed what Lozado had discovered.<\/p>\n

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On May 14, 1939, when Lina was five years old, she gave birth to a healthy child via Caesarean section. He weighed 6 pounds (2.7 kg) and was 19 inches (48 cm) long. He was named Gerardo as a tribute to the doctor, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lina\u2019s pregnancy became major news around the world and was reported on everywhere from the New York Times in the United States to the Daily Telegraph in England. It ran next to headlines about the fighting of World War II.<\/p>\n

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Lina received many offers to travel with her son to the United States to undergo medical tests. But Lina\u2019s parents refused and Peru\u2019s then president, Oscar Benavides, enacted a law to protect them from being used for financial gain and also promised them a grant that would take care of them for life. Unfortunately though, Lina never saw a penny.<\/p>\n

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Nobody could believe that such a young girl could become pregnant\u2014and have a successful delivery.<\/p>\n

In her hometown, Lina was regarded as a \u201cvirgin Mary.\u201d Some villagers speculated that her baby was the son of the sun god.<\/p>\n

But the authorities didn\u2019t buy that explanation. They suspected that she had been raped by her father. The police took him in for interrogation and kept him in jail for a couple days. But they didn\u2019t have any evidence against him and released him. Afterward, suspicions turned toward one of her brothers, who suffered from mental problems.<\/p>\n

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Another line of investigation led police to the family gardener. He disappeared without a trace when Lina was confirmed to be pregnant.<\/p>\n

But the identity of the monster, and father of the child, is still a mystery today, some 78 years later. Lina has never wanted to talk about it, despite persistent requests from the press.<\/p>\n

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Several years after the miraculous birth, Peruvian doctors discovered that she suffered from an extremely rare hormonal disorder of the pituitary gland.<\/p>\n

According to the the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Lina got her first period when she was about eight months old, and when she was four years old, she was already in puberty. By the time she gave birth, Lina had the body of a fully developed adult woman. She set a world record which has only been matched by a similar case in Russia.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, Lina was unable to take care of her child, and Gerardo was taken care of by his grandparents. For a long time, the boy thought that Lina, who was playing the same toys, was his sister. Then when he was 10 years old, Gerardo learned the truth about who his mother was.<\/p>\n

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Life wasn\u2019t easy for the very young mother. But fortunately, she had a guardian angel: the doctor who delivered her baby. He later employed Lina as a secretary at his clinic. In the picture below, you can see an adult Lina with her son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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