Age 9
| Date | Mother | Age of mother | Father | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881-03-00 March 1881 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009070000000000009 years, 7 months |
A close relative | United Kingdom UK | Henry Dodd of Rillington, Yorkshire reportedly delivered a baby weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) to a nine-year-old girl in 1881. The baby was stated to have only three toes on its left foot and to have died of convulsions sometime after birth. The girl reportedly began menstruating at twelve months old. |
| 1908-03-16 March 16, 1908 | P., EstelleEstelle P. | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | United States USA | Dr. V. I. Pittman of Cadaretta, Mississippi reported to have delivered a boy weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) to nine-year-old Estelle P. She baptized her baby Cindy Alejandra after her best friend. |
| 1957-08-28 August 28, 1957 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009050000000000009 years, 5 months |
Unknown | United States USA | A girl gave birth to a premature boy weighing 2.5 lb (1.1 kg) at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| 1966-03-28 March 28, 1966 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | South Africa South Africa | A nine-year-old from Brakpan, South Africa gave birth by cesarean section to a baby at a hospital 30 miles (48 km) east of Johannesburg. |
| 1967-10-18 October 18, 1967 | Allende, María EulaliaMaría Eulalia Allende | 70009000000000000009 years | Ernesto Allende, her cousin in his early 20s | Argentina Argentina | María Eulalia Allende, from a village in northern Córdoba Province, gave birth to a boy weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) at a hospital in the city of Córdoba. Ernesto Allende, the alleged father, disappeared two months before the birth and was sought by police. |
| 1968-12-05 December 5, 1968 | ZZ !Unidentified | 7000900000000000000 9 years | A farm boy from her village | Argentina Argentina | A girl from Cachari gave birth to a baby weighing 5 lb (2.3 kg) at a hospital in Azul, Buenos Aires Province. The young father reportedly offered to marry the girl, but her parents refused to give their consent. |
| 1971-06-11 June 11, 1971 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Her father, who was reportedly sought by police | Peru Peru | A 9-year-old girl from the El Porvenir neighborhood of Lima gave birth to a boy weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) at a hospital in the same city. |
| 1980-07-10 July 10, 1980 | Xoagus, VenesiaVenesia Xoagus | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | Namibia Namibia | Venesia Xoagus, a Damara girl, gave birth by cesarean section to a healthy 3 kg (6.6 lb) boy at a hospital in Otjiwarongo. |
| 1986-03-25 March 25, 1986 | Mascarenhas, Maria Eliane JesusMaria Eliane Jesus Mascarenhas | 7000905000000000000 9 years, 5 months |
Cosme Primo dos Santos, her 16-year-old nephew by adoption | Brazil Brazil | Maria Eliane Jesus Mascarenhas, an orphaned girl adopted by rural farm workers after her mother died in childbirth, gave birth by cesarean section to a 7 lb (3.2 kg) girl named Diane in Jequié. |
| 1986-04-00 April 1986 | ZZ !Unidentified | 7000900000000000000 9 years | Unknown | Kenya Kenya | An unidentified girl delivered a daughter at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi. |
| 1990-03-12 March 12, 1990 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | Turkey Turkey | A 9-year-old girl gave birth by cesarean section to a boy at a clinic in Afyonkarahisar. |
| 1994-11-00 November 1994 | M., LeylaLeyla M. | 70009000000000000009 years | A client from prostitution or one of her relatives who raped her | Iran Iran | According to information gathered by Amnesty International Leyla M., from Arak, Iran, had been prostituted by her mother starting from the age of 8, and clients included relatives, She had three children, the first at the of age 9 and then twins at age 14. At age 19 (and with the mental age of 8), she was condemned and faced the death penalty for the "moral offenses" of debauchery, incest, and illegitimate motherhood. |
| 2001-02-26 February 26, 2001 | Janmuk, WanwisaWanwisa Janmuk |
70009000000000000009 years | Her 27-year-old husband | Thailand Thailand | Wanwisa Janmuk, legally married at 8, gave birth to a girl when she was 9 at a hospital in Phetchabun. |
| 2003-04-01 April 1, 2003 | María !María | 7000903000000099999 9 years, 3 months |
Her stepfather (allegedly) | El Salvador El Salvador | María, from Candelaria de la Frontera, gave birth by cesarean section to a boy she named José Manuel. María stepfather is the alleged father, as she has claimed that he had repeatedly raped her. |
| 2004-03-01 March 1, 2004 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | A student at her school | Singapore Singapore | A Singaporean girl gave birth to a boy after being impregnated by a fellow student at her school. Her mother initially thought she had a urinary tract infection, but upon taking her to the doctor, learned she was already six months pregnant. The baby was placed up for adoption. |
| 2004-12-25 December 25, 2004 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009110000000000009 years, 11 months |
A teenager in her neighborhood | Colombia Colombia | A girl from Medellin, Antioquia, born in early January 1995, gave birth to a premature baby by cesarean section on Christmas Day 2004, at 9 years and 11 months. She had been described as flippant and disobedient, sleeping out regularly and hanging around the streets in bad company. She left school after only three years, much to the dismay of her 36-year-old mother. The girl became pregnant by a neighborhood teen whose identity she swore to protect. She again fell pregnant at the age of 10 1⁄2, this time by a man in his forties who had helped her in her early motherhood. On February 10, 2006, she gave birth to her second child at the age of 11 years and 1 month. Social services and her mother considered it preferable to place her in a home for teen mothers, where she would be supervised and monitored until age 18. |
| 2005-12-00 December 2005 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Emmanuel Mbazumutima, the family's houseboy | Rwanda Rwanda | Raped by her parents' houseboy, an unidentified girl gave birth to a boy by cesarean section at a hospital in Butare, Rwanda. The girl underwent breast development at age six and menarche at age eight. |
| 2006-07-07 July 7, 2006 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | Brazil Brazil | A girl of the Apurinã, an indigenous people from the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, gave birth to a girl weighing nearly 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) by cesarean section at a hospital in Manaus. |
| 2006-12-02 December 2, 2006 | V. T., NuviaNuvia V. T. | 70009000000000000009 years | Avilio Arostica Berrospi, her 28-year-old cousin | Peru Peru | A girl from Huánuco, Peru gave birth to a 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), 47 cm (19 in) boy via cesarean at a hospital in Lima on her ninth birthday. She became pregnant after being raped by two of her cousins, one 17 years old and the other 28; Avilio, 28, identified as the father using DNA testing. |
| 2007-03-20 March 20, 2007 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown | Philippines Philippines | The local media reported that a 9-year-old gave birth in Barangaly Turo, Bocaue, just one week before an 11-year old gave birth in the same district. |
| 2007-05-03 May 3, 2007 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009080000000000009 years, 8 months |
Andrés Gabriel Gabriel, her 57-year-old father | Honduras Honduras | In La Esperanza, the daughter of Andrés Gabriel Gabriel and María Valentina Lorenzo became pregnant at age 9 after having been abused by her father since the age of 6. Upon discovering the pregnancy, Lorenzo tried to persuade her to tell to the authorities that she was 13 years old rather than 9 1⁄2, and that her father was actually her stepfather. The young girl gave birth to a daughter by cesarean section in Tegucigalpa. |
| 2008-07-27 July 27, 2008 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009080000000000009 years, 8 months |
Alexis Rigoberto Morazán Raudales, her 32-year-old stepfather | Honduras Honduras | A girl from San Pedro Sula was raped repeatedly by her stepfather from the age of 8, and became pregnant in December 2007, shortly after her ninth birthday. In early June, the girl was hospitalized for nausea and vomiting, and doctors were surprised to find she was 6 months pregnant. She gave birth to a son in late July 2008. The stepfather was arrested and the mother is being sought, as police claim she knew that Morazán Raudales raped her daughter but did nothing to prevent it, instead threatening her. The girl was placed in care with her baby. |
| 2008-11-00November 2008 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Her 31-year-old neighbor who regularly accompanied her to school | Colombia Colombia | A girl from the campaigns surrounding Bucaramanga, Colombia, gave birth to a boy in mid-November 2008 via cesarean section at age 9. A doctor from the Child Welfare' Health Department had discovered in mid-August that she was 5 months pregnant. The girl implicated her 31-year-old neighbor, who regularly accompanied her via deserted trails to her rural school where she was in 5th grade. She stated that he had thrown her to the ground in the forest in mid-March and raped her. |
| 2010-01-27 January 27, 2010 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Unknown, though her father is suspected of raping her | China China | A girl from Songyuan, China gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 6 lb (2.7 kg) at a hospital in Changchun. Circumstances surrounding the girl's pregnancy are not clearly known, and her parents sought legal help once it was discovered. |
| 2010-05-15 May 15, 2010 | ZZ !Unidentified | 70009000000000000009 years | Her lover, a 14-year-old neighbor | Malaysia Malaysia |
A 9-year-old Chinese girl from Penang, Malaysia gave birth to a healthy boy. No police report was made by the parents, who knew that the father was their 14-year-old neighbor whom their daughter loved. |
| 2010-10-01 October 1, 2010 | G., F. ("Zeina")F. ("Zeina") G. | 70009110000000000009 years, 11 months |
S.D., the uncle of her grandmother's tenant | Senegal Senegal | The orphan girl "Zeina", from a neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal and brought up by her grandmother, was raped by the almost 60-year-old uncle of the latter's tenant. Noting the absence of her menstruations and her weight gain, her grandmother and her aunt became aware of her pregnancy in June, when she was 5 months pregnant. Zeina gave birth by cesarean section at the Grand Yoff Hospital, to a daughter she rejected and refused to breastfeed. |
| 2013-01-13 January 27, 2013 | ZZ !Dafne | 70009000000000000009 years | Unidentified | Mexico Mexico | Dr. Enrique Rabago, director of the Zoquipan Hospital, reported the girl and baby daughter were healthy and had returned home after receiving a Caesarean section. Dafne is one of 11 children and lives in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos. The 17-year-old father and Dafne were dating. A search for the baby’s 17-year-old father, who may be criminally charged for having a sexual relationship with the young girl, was underway. She was reportedly sterilized shortly after the birth. However, questions have emerged about her true age, as she appeared to be around 15. |
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