A ten year old girl was at school when she began having excruciating stomach pains that were so severe the school sent her to the hospital.  The emergency room doctor put her through a litany of tests to determine the cause of her pain.  They were finally able to find it and they were all in shock.  The girl was going through the final stage of labor and was about to give birth.  Despite her age and size, the delivery went smoothly and both mother and baby were doing fine.

 Upon being admitted to the emergency room, they discovered that she was seven months pregnant. Shortly thereafter, she gave birth.

Despite the mother’s incredibly young age and the baby’s prematurity, the delivery went through with no complications. Both are still recovering in the hospital.

According to the family, neither they nor the little girl had any idea that she was pregnant. A spokesman for the police department said, “The mother alleges that she, along with other family members, hadn’t noticed, taking into consideration the child’s small frame.”

After the delivery the girl confided to her mother that her forty year old stepfather had sexually assaulted her. The girl’s mother then notified authorities who interviewed the child. She told police that her stepfather had threatened to kill the family if she told anyone about his abuse.

The stepfather had not living with them at the time of the birth. He was arrested and soon confessed to raping the ten year old. They have charged him with rape of a child and possession of an illegal firearm.

In a statement to the police, the mother said that the girl had started to struggle with her studies and became withdrawn from her friends and family beginning in October of 2014, suggesting that this abuse had been going on for some time.

Pregnancy for girls this young is extremely dangerous. Girls under the age of 15 are are five times more likely to die during labor than women over 20 years of age. Because they are not fully developed, they may experience such complications as eclampsia, premature labor, prolonged labor, obstructed labor, fistula, anemia, or death of the baby or mother.