9-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth in Brazil
People: 8 July 2006, Saturday.
A 9-year-old gave birth to a baby girl in the Amazon jungle after undergoing a Caesarean section earlier this week, authorities announced.
It is suspected that the pregnancy may have been the result of rape. An investigation has been launched.
The girl was found in the jungle in April by laborers working on a natural gas pipeline from the Coari oil fields to Manaus, a city of 1.5 million people 1,800 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, a spokesman for the local healthcare administration said.
She was taken to Manaus, the capital of the Amazon state, and went into labor on Thursday.
The baby, weighing 2.2 kilograms, is said to be in good health.
The mother, of the Apurina tribe, has refused to speak, and the identity of the infant's father was unknown.
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