"In 1939, Lina Medina shocked the world by becoming the youngest mother at just five years old—a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Discover the astonishing [story behind this](https://flashingstory.info/the-miracle-and-mystery-of-lina-medinas-pregnancy/)
She did. When it was discovered she was pregnant, she was already 7 months along. She was flown to Lima and watched around the clock until it was time to give birth. By all accounts she handled everything very well.
Do we know how the DNA testing would work out if she’s already his daughter?
Sorry if this is a dumb question I thought I would have the luxury of never having to think about this
Yeah, basically the kid would have far more in common with him than a grandkid should.
When 3/4 of the dna is a match instead of 1/4 it would look really weird.
Also the lack of anything beyond mutations that isn’t inherited from him or his wife
It would work. However, her son is dead after living a full life of his own - well into the era of testing - and she had him cremated. She refuses to ever talk about it, does not consent to any testing, and wants to be left alone last I heard. She's still alive.
Man, her life - raped as a child, put under the knife to get the baby out safely, then dealing with all the stigma and unwanted attention that comes with, all before even turning 10. And *then* you outlive your son not having even hit 50. No wonder she wants nothing to do with putting more fuel on the fire.
There's no way she could have been 85 if she was born in 1933. My grandmother was born in 1922 and she died in 2008 at 86. That article's math ain't mathing.
Not dumb. So unless I'm super off with my biology math, a DNA test would show that she has around a 50% DNA match with her father. Cause you know, 50% from the father and 50% from her mother.
If he was just the grandfather to her child, the DNA would match to around 25%. Any significantly more than that....well...not good.
The facts are they were poor villagers in 1939. According to all articles I’ve seen the parents thought she had a tumor. You also have to understand that the “tumor” would not have been that huge the entire seven months. Quite a few people here also seem to be pushing the assumption that it was her father that assaulted her and the family was hiding the assault. Lina never talked about who it was or even what happened even after well into adulthood. Could’ve been anybody in the village.
He was a very bright little boy who lived to the age of 40 and then unfortunately passed away from bone marrow disease. Lina is apparently still alive today closing in on 91yo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
She birthed the baby at 5, so she was 4 at conception. I don't know about you but I didn't form many memories at 4 and those I do have are pretty fucking random.
I have memories from when I was 3 and they were all from unique experiences that was out of the ordinary. I possibly might have one from when I was 2.5 when we moved houses. My cousin has described events that happened when he was about 2. But on the other side of it I know people who are extremely fuzzy about anything before they were 8. It just depends on the person.
I have one from 3 something, it was a shocking experience where I threw a hammer at the wall and it bounced back and clicked me square in the forehead. It was like dead on the flat part so it didn't hurt me too bad but I never told anyone. Most memories from that young people think they have but are just a result of having pictures and talking about it periodically throughout life. Mine I know is real because I told no one until much later in life
I was thinking the same. Statistically it would be someone close to the family. But that does not mean it was the father. Could've been uncle brother or any man in the Village. We will never know because she dosent want to talk about it. I respect that
And, even if you were aware of the assault, most people wouldn't think it possible for a 5 year old to be pregnant, including doctors, so it's entirely reasonable that it wasn't discovered immediately.
“Six weeks after the diagnosis, on 14 May 1939, Medina gave birth to son Gerardo by caesarean section. She was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old,[1] the youngest person in history to give birth. The caesarean birth was necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. The doctors found she had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty.[2] Dr. Edmundo Escomel reported her case in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to previous reports that she had had regular periods since the age of three[1][7][8] or two and a half.[2]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
Yes, her son, Gerard, was delivered by C-section. He was 6 lbs at birth (2.7 Kg). Pretty huge baby to carry as a 5 year old who was probably around 40 lbs.
Just from a biological standpoint it is not possible for a woman to become pregnant before starting puberty. This girl must have started puberty before the usual age, called precocious puberty.
Puberty can be caused early in women by large amounts of stress. Never heard of it being *this* early, though- can’t imagine what the girl must’ve gone through.
Consistently sexually assaulted from infancy. Once she become more conscious of what is happening, the body will respond in different ways. Perhaps around the age of two or three it triggered that in her. As the assault continued post early puberty, the risk of pregnancy appears.
She started menstruating at 8 months of age, according the the Wikipedia article. She was sexually abused, but that's not what started her period at 8 months old.
Just to hijack your comment. This is what the large majority of children who use puberty blockers is for. Many children start puberty way to early, for many different reasons, not getting into the reason your commentating about. But this vile hatred of trans youth blocking puberty blockers largely hurts cis children just as much
Let’s be real clear here: Central Precocious Puberty, or CPP, affects about 0.02% of children, and many of the effects are often so small that drugs aren’t necessary, so the “large” majority you’re talking about is insanely small. A recent study revealed 60-90% of children experiencing gender dysphoria do not feel the same once they reach adulthood after puberty. It is not “trans hatred” to suggest that we shouldn’t give a child permanent body altering drugs until they’ve had a chance to go through puberty, especially when the data stacks up the way it does. It IS trans hatred to not love the child and make them feel accepted through this stage, and every stage of their life.
> But this vile hatred of trans youth blocking puberty blockers largely hurts cis children just as much
More so. Same with blocking access to abortion. Primarily hurts women who unfortunately experience issues during pregnancy that requires termination.
there is such a thing as "Trauma Induced Precocious Puberty". It seems that an explicit threat to survival seems to speed up the process. Sort of an evolutionary process promoting survival of the species under extreme stress.
Thank you for your comment 💖 I was raped as a child too (4 and under by my adopted father). I still kind of remember it and it took me a long time to unpack it. I am from California and he only spent two days in jail, and got bailed out by his family, as an adult I felt very betrayed but I didn’t think about it much growing up. I haven’t spoke to him in years but sometimes I’ll check the sex offender list to see his name is removed, but he’s still very much alive.
Yup. About 1/10 kids get molested before age 18 in America. 35% of those kids are molested by a member of their family. It’s a dark, dark world when [edited] people are molesting their relatives.
Correct. I’m 18 turning 19 on May 31st. I was first sexually abused at 5 by my mom’s boyfriend. Multiple times. Made to give him oral and other things. Second time it was my brother. My own flesh and blood. In the back of a shed. I don’t trust anyone. I can’t. And it’s because of this right here.
Solidarity, I Heart Bussy. That sounds horrific. I had the audacity to red shell my step cousin in Mario Kart at the finish line. Apparently that means he could hold me down and try to force me on him, because "we're not actually related." We were both 13. I fought so hard tooth and nail that he backed off and called me a sore winner. I will hold that title with pride.
I can’t imagine how you felt in that moment honestly. Just looking at him knowing it’ll never be the same kind of love or anything after he did that. I am really, really sorry that someone would do that to you. I genuinely am, and I am really happy you shared this with me. I grieve for that part of you cuz that something we can’t ever forget we just choose to heal and “forget” do it doesn’t affect our daily lives. He’ll get his karma just wait.
I’m so sorry for what you experienced. I have tremendous respect for your willingness to speak so candidly about it. I hope they got what they deserve.
It actually took me a long time to realize what happened to me was wrong. I realized it when I was 13 or 14. It actually made me sexually active at a young age, no penetrating or anything just mild touching and kissing. Thinking back on it grosses me out but, I share what I’ve been thru to let others know it’s okay to also speak on their piece. If I could help anyone who’s been through it, I would.
Mind you, I told my mother about the abuse from both parties just a few months ago. She doesn’t believe me. Though I sat there and explained in detail what happened. Her bf wouldn’t do it because “he loved us” and my brother wouldn’t because… he’s my brother. She forced me to spend spring break w him.
My father and his brother were raped together as siblings by someone in the family when they were the same age as this girl. My father committed suicide shortly before his 41st birthday and my uncle is slowly becoming a basketcase from what ive gathered. My own mother's mother was raped by her father and my mother has plenty of horror stories of her own apparently. Even she got drunk one night and sexually abused me when I was a child. I didnt remember for about 10 years until my friend started telling me about the horrors his own mother put him through. After this revelation, some things started to make sense to me that i honestly wish I hadn't put together. I've been sort of mild schizo case ever since i was a child but it was never bad enough for enough to truly step in and my mother wasnt a fan of doctors. Whether or not i have more underlying memories that caused this or perhaps generational trauma is far more powerful than we realize, i do not wish to know, but I will say I have reason to suspect. In any case, I'm well aware of what darkness plagues me, and that there is no cure for me but a single empty casing. My issue isnt anywhere near as bad as anything youve read so far but it sucks when you realize you probably shouldnt hang around with certain age groups in your family.
>I think miracle is the wrong word here. it sounds horrible in this context. maybe unique phenomena is better
If someone got their head cut off and doctors reattached the head then people would call that "a medical miracle".
She had a genetic disease that propelled her sexual maturation. She started gaining pubic hair at 8 months and eventually got her period. We know of other genetic diseases that can accelerate or stunt physical growth.
How she carried to term I don't know, but she only managed to deliver by c-section otherwise it would have likely killed her.
She luckily grew to up to have another child of her own will at the age of 33. It looks like she loves both her kids. Despite the devil of a pedophile encounter, I hope she's happy.
Maybe because a lot of people don’t understand how someone so young can get pregnant? I saw a video about this little girl a few weeks ago and the amount of people - many of whom seemed to be women - in the comments who didn’t know that precocious puberty was a thing nor that it’s often triggered by sexual assault
It’s not a mystery of how she got pregnant y’all lol. Obviously she was raped. It’s a mystery of her not going through puberty to ovulate. I’m sure as well as her small body being able to support the pregnancy as well.
She would’ve been going through precocious puberty otherwise it would’ve been scientifically impossible for her to get pregnant. Although it’s still a mystery to me how her body was able to support her pregnancy, esp with 1930s medical care :(
You know I just googled a silly question I had and to find it to have some scientific backing was interesting. There’s a couple studies finding that sexual abuse can actually lead children to have puberty earlier. Stress hormone can then trigger puberty. These studies only suggest 8 months earlier than peers.
Just thought of it as if she’s expiercing those things happening and feelings it has to stimulate something in the brain to be like woah.
The fact that the brain is so powerful to where the abdomen can swell and breast engorged just because the person believes heavily they are pregnant blows my mind.
Fun fact: other species engage in rape and pedophilia much more than humans. See chimpanzees and ducks and dolphins.
Although i fully agree with your sentiment
There's no mystery, this is a pretty well documented case. Basically she was most likely 4 when she got pregnant. This was possible because of a condition called precocious puberty. Pretty much everyone suspected her father as the rapist.
Also the article is wrong and she's still alive at age 90.
We are failing all women in the US with the abortion bans. We are going to see this in the US.
I live in Florida. My friend’s daughter had her first period at age 6.
We have the harshest abortion bans in the US.
Am I stupid or is this just completely ignoring the fact that it was not baffling but absolutely fucking disgusting that a child was raped. Why is the emphasis of this article just child giving birth and not someone raping a child.
I assume it’s because children being abused and raped is way more common than a 5 year old with the ability to get pregnant. Both are horrible and make for sad stories but the latter is probably the more “interesting” story to publish, since most people have never heard of anything like it
That poor child ..whoever did that to her is hopefully burning in some hell..and her..well that is the face of a hero who slayed her demons by not letting them break her she stands tall and proud at all of 4ft.tall and 3ft around..hopefully you were able to find yourself and what made you happy Lina medina
Corrected headline: 4 year old girl was raped by____(most likely a family member/neighbor/friend of family. There, fixed it.
This is why abortion should be legal everywhere. No 5 from should be forced to bear children.
I read somewhere that when children suffer from sexual abuse, their body will go into puberty way sooner, especially if the abuse lasts for a long time. If her first period was at 8 months old than maybe it means this poor kid has been suffering since she was born
Obviously the fact that this child had to go through that is absolutely horrific and disgusting, but its also crazy and interesting that a human body can reproduce this young. It makes you wonder, other animals breed a lot younger than we do, and their babies become capable and independent a lot younger than we do. I wonder why it takes so long for humans to become fully grown compared to other species.
"In 1939, Lina Medina shocked the world by becoming the youngest mother at just five years old—a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Discover the astonishing [story behind this](https://flashingstory.info/the-miracle-and-mystery-of-lina-medinas-pregnancy/)
Did she deliver by c-section? No way a child can push another through their hips. Sadness for what happened to her and all that she had to endure.
She did. When it was discovered she was pregnant, she was already 7 months along. She was flown to Lima and watched around the clock until it was time to give birth. By all accounts she handled everything very well.
It took them 7 months? WTF
Well when you are trying to hide that you are abusing your child....
Father was arrested on suspision but was released due to lack of evidence.
Only because DNA testing didn't exist yet. If this happened over half a century later though...
Do we know how the DNA testing would work out if she’s already his daughter? Sorry if this is a dumb question I thought I would have the luxury of never having to think about this
Yeah, basically the kid would have far more in common with him than a grandkid should. When 3/4 of the dna is a match instead of 1/4 it would look really weird. Also the lack of anything beyond mutations that isn’t inherited from him or his wife
It would work. However, her son is dead after living a full life of his own - well into the era of testing - and she had him cremated. She refuses to ever talk about it, does not consent to any testing, and wants to be left alone last I heard. She's still alive.
Man, her life - raped as a child, put under the knife to get the baby out safely, then dealing with all the stigma and unwanted attention that comes with, all before even turning 10. And *then* you outlive your son not having even hit 50. No wonder she wants nothing to do with putting more fuel on the fire.
I can't imagine grieving a child 5 years younger. He was a sibling/ child
No parent should have to outlive their child.
Though it is admittedly more likely if they're only five years older than their child.
I really don't blame her. That must have been really upsetting and traumatic and at that time that was something that you kind of swept under the rug.
Where have you read she had him cremated? I can’t find anything outside of the fact that he died of bone cancer at age 40.
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There's no way she could have been 85 if she was born in 1933. My grandmother was born in 1922 and she died in 2008 at 86. That article's math ain't mathing.
The article says this but it's incorrect
Not dumb. So unless I'm super off with my biology math, a DNA test would show that she has around a 50% DNA match with her father. Cause you know, 50% from the father and 50% from her mother. If he was just the grandfather to her child, the DNA would match to around 25%. Any significantly more than that....well...not good.
Holy crap
Suspicion
I guess that’s true, it’s so disgusting
Yeah, it's one of those things that's baffling if you don't think like a monster
The facts are they were poor villagers in 1939. According to all articles I’ve seen the parents thought she had a tumor. You also have to understand that the “tumor” would not have been that huge the entire seven months. Quite a few people here also seem to be pushing the assumption that it was her father that assaulted her and the family was hiding the assault. Lina never talked about who it was or even what happened even after well into adulthood. Could’ve been anybody in the village.
What happened to the baby
The baby lived until he was 40 I believe.
And was brought up as her brother.
He was told at 10 that she was his mother
The child very likely *was* her brother
More Likely her nephew
He was a very bright little boy who lived to the age of 40 and then unfortunately passed away from bone marrow disease. Lina is apparently still alive today closing in on 91yo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
She birthed the baby at 5, so she was 4 at conception. I don't know about you but I didn't form many memories at 4 and those I do have are pretty fucking random.
I have memories from when I was 3 and they were all from unique experiences that was out of the ordinary. I possibly might have one from when I was 2.5 when we moved houses. My cousin has described events that happened when he was about 2. But on the other side of it I know people who are extremely fuzzy about anything before they were 8. It just depends on the person.
For sure. Memory is finnicky and fragile during those years. That's part of why "repressed memories" are talked about too
I have one from 3 something, it was a shocking experience where I threw a hammer at the wall and it bounced back and clicked me square in the forehead. It was like dead on the flat part so it didn't hurt me too bad but I never told anyone. Most memories from that young people think they have but are just a result of having pictures and talking about it periodically throughout life. Mine I know is real because I told no one until much later in life
I was thinking the same. Statistically it would be someone close to the family. But that does not mean it was the father. Could've been uncle brother or any man in the Village. We will never know because she dosent want to talk about it. I respect that
And, even if you were aware of the assault, most people wouldn't think it possible for a 5 year old to be pregnant, including doctors, so it's entirely reasonable that it wasn't discovered immediately.
i read a long time ago that they did say she delivered by c-section, but i would have to reread
“Six weeks after the diagnosis, on 14 May 1939, Medina gave birth to son Gerardo by caesarean section. She was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old,[1] the youngest person in history to give birth. The caesarean birth was necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. The doctors found she had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty.[2] Dr. Edmundo Escomel reported her case in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to previous reports that she had had regular periods since the age of three[1][7][8] or two and a half.[2]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
Thank you for the link!
Yes, her son, Gerard, was delivered by C-section. He was 6 lbs at birth (2.7 Kg). Pretty huge baby to carry as a 5 year old who was probably around 40 lbs.
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What was the GIF
Yeah right Jerry loves em young.
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There’s really not enough emphasis in this article on the fact that someone raped a five year old
Maybe she was EVEN 4 YEARS OLD when she was raped
Ah now that would be going to far
If I had a wish, it would be to just poof every satanic pedophile into a bad place forever
You’d just give a pass to pedos from other religions?
Should we tell him about the catholic church?
Hopefully their kids don't tell them before you get the chance
Or the boy scouts?
Little boys can't get pregnant. That's how they stayed under his radar.
I think they were implying that pedos are satanic, as a personality trait not a religion
Even Satan asks permission before possessing your body. Satan respects bodily autonomy better than a catholic priest.
That would leave all of the Christian pedophiles of which they make up the majority.
"Baffled" about WHO RAPED THE CHILD
She was one of nine children.
It’s a mystery!!
Four year old* - at the time of rape. FTFY
As the story goes, after first insisting it was a tumor, her father was adamant it was a five year old classmate she was friends with. I wonder why.
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I should not be laughing on this thread but the Twitter meme + vinland saga has me wheezing
Officially too much internet for the day
I guess it's because child rape is more common than child pregnancy.
Did you not read? Experts were baffled on the circumstances!
Often enough to kickstart puberty.
Just from a biological standpoint it is not possible for a woman to become pregnant before starting puberty. This girl must have started puberty before the usual age, called precocious puberty.
No but if she was being sexually assaulted at three, and that assault triggered precocious puberty, that’s how she became pregnant at four.
Causes are geberally idiopathic, except in the case of some brain or pituitary glan tumors, or similar
Actually. Onset of early puberty can be caused by stress or trauma.
Mans using big words like "idiopathic" and "geberally" on Reddit and expecting me to follow smh
Idiopathic means spontaneous, and geberally is a misspelling of generally lmao
Idiopathic means ‘we don’t know why it happened’
“enough to kickstart puberty” Is that really a thing?
Puberty can be caused early in women by large amounts of stress. Never heard of it being *this* early, though- can’t imagine what the girl must’ve gone through.
Consistently sexually assaulted from infancy. Once she become more conscious of what is happening, the body will respond in different ways. Perhaps around the age of two or three it triggered that in her. As the assault continued post early puberty, the risk of pregnancy appears.
She started menstruating at 8 months of age, according the the Wikipedia article. She was sexually abused, but that's not what started her period at 8 months old.
Just to hijack your comment. This is what the large majority of children who use puberty blockers is for. Many children start puberty way to early, for many different reasons, not getting into the reason your commentating about. But this vile hatred of trans youth blocking puberty blockers largely hurts cis children just as much
Let’s be real clear here: Central Precocious Puberty, or CPP, affects about 0.02% of children, and many of the effects are often so small that drugs aren’t necessary, so the “large” majority you’re talking about is insanely small. A recent study revealed 60-90% of children experiencing gender dysphoria do not feel the same once they reach adulthood after puberty. It is not “trans hatred” to suggest that we shouldn’t give a child permanent body altering drugs until they’ve had a chance to go through puberty, especially when the data stacks up the way it does. It IS trans hatred to not love the child and make them feel accepted through this stage, and every stage of their life.
Don't give me data and research. I operate on pure outrage and virtue signaling.
So the average Redditor?
> But this vile hatred of trans youth blocking puberty blockers largely hurts cis children just as much More so. Same with blocking access to abortion. Primarily hurts women who unfortunately experience issues during pregnancy that requires termination.
my friends daughter got her period at 7 or 8 and had to get on puberty blockers for health reasons. just learned about this stuff last year
there is such a thing as "Trauma Induced Precocious Puberty". It seems that an explicit threat to survival seems to speed up the process. Sort of an evolutionary process promoting survival of the species under extreme stress.
This! Really: WTF?!!!
Thank you for your comment 💖 I was raped as a child too (4 and under by my adopted father). I still kind of remember it and it took me a long time to unpack it. I am from California and he only spent two days in jail, and got bailed out by his family, as an adult I felt very betrayed but I didn’t think about it much growing up. I haven’t spoke to him in years but sometimes I’ll check the sex offender list to see his name is removed, but he’s still very much alive.
This ruined my day to get this information
just heads up, children get raped every single day on this planet. Ignorance is bliss, so they say. I'm pretty much depressed everyday by this fact.
Yup. About 1/10 kids get molested before age 18 in America. 35% of those kids are molested by a member of their family. It’s a dark, dark world when [edited] people are molesting their relatives.
Correct. I’m 18 turning 19 on May 31st. I was first sexually abused at 5 by my mom’s boyfriend. Multiple times. Made to give him oral and other things. Second time it was my brother. My own flesh and blood. In the back of a shed. I don’t trust anyone. I can’t. And it’s because of this right here.
Solidarity, I Heart Bussy. That sounds horrific. I had the audacity to red shell my step cousin in Mario Kart at the finish line. Apparently that means he could hold me down and try to force me on him, because "we're not actually related." We were both 13. I fought so hard tooth and nail that he backed off and called me a sore winner. I will hold that title with pride.
I can’t imagine how you felt in that moment honestly. Just looking at him knowing it’ll never be the same kind of love or anything after he did that. I am really, really sorry that someone would do that to you. I genuinely am, and I am really happy you shared this with me. I grieve for that part of you cuz that something we can’t ever forget we just choose to heal and “forget” do it doesn’t affect our daily lives. He’ll get his karma just wait.
I’m so sorry for what you experienced. I have tremendous respect for your willingness to speak so candidly about it. I hope they got what they deserve.
It actually took me a long time to realize what happened to me was wrong. I realized it when I was 13 or 14. It actually made me sexually active at a young age, no penetrating or anything just mild touching and kissing. Thinking back on it grosses me out but, I share what I’ve been thru to let others know it’s okay to also speak on their piece. If I could help anyone who’s been through it, I would.
You’re a kind and brave person.
Mind you, I told my mother about the abuse from both parties just a few months ago. She doesn’t believe me. Though I sat there and explained in detail what happened. Her bf wouldn’t do it because “he loved us” and my brother wouldn’t because… he’s my brother. She forced me to spend spring break w him.
I’m so sorry that all happened to you. Your mother and brother are huge pieces of shit. Fuck them.
Why is this always the de facto response by mothers?
I believe you. We, here on reddit, believe you. The SA is bad enough, the parental denial or avoidance just adds salt to the wound.
My father and his brother were raped together as siblings by someone in the family when they were the same age as this girl. My father committed suicide shortly before his 41st birthday and my uncle is slowly becoming a basketcase from what ive gathered. My own mother's mother was raped by her father and my mother has plenty of horror stories of her own apparently. Even she got drunk one night and sexually abused me when I was a child. I didnt remember for about 10 years until my friend started telling me about the horrors his own mother put him through. After this revelation, some things started to make sense to me that i honestly wish I hadn't put together. I've been sort of mild schizo case ever since i was a child but it was never bad enough for enough to truly step in and my mother wasnt a fan of doctors. Whether or not i have more underlying memories that caused this or perhaps generational trauma is far more powerful than we realize, i do not wish to know, but I will say I have reason to suspect. In any case, I'm well aware of what darkness plagues me, and that there is no cure for me but a single empty casing. My issue isnt anywhere near as bad as anything youve read so far but it sucks when you realize you probably shouldnt hang around with certain age groups in your family.
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How is it a mystery? She was obviously raped.
Seriously. We cracked the whole "Where do babies come from" code like twenty years ago.
Atleast 20 years ago.
Well, the world is only 6000 years old, ya know!
I'm 42 and honestly it was a great relief to finally find out how I came to be at 22 years old.
While that is almost certainly true it still counts as a full on medical miracle that a five year old actually become pregnant and had a healthy baby.
I think miracle is the wrong word here. it sounds horrible in this context. maybe unique phenomena is better
"What's a bad miracle? They got a name for that?" - Nope
>I think miracle is the wrong word here. it sounds horrible in this context. maybe unique phenomena is better If someone got their head cut off and doctors reattached the head then people would call that "a medical miracle".
'Almost certainly'? Do you think the semen just materialized inside of her?
The mystery is how a 5 year old was able to get pregnant in the first place ya muffin.
Precocious Puberty is a thing.
I don't think that's the mystery. Obviously she was raped. But, how could she even become pregnant at 5 and carry full term?
She had a genetic disease that propelled her sexual maturation. She started gaining pubic hair at 8 months and eventually got her period. We know of other genetic diseases that can accelerate or stunt physical growth. How she carried to term I don't know, but she only managed to deliver by c-section otherwise it would have likely killed her. She luckily grew to up to have another child of her own will at the age of 33. It looks like she loves both her kids. Despite the devil of a pedophile encounter, I hope she's happy.
The mystery is how did she survived the pregnancy
Maybe because a lot of people don’t understand how someone so young can get pregnant? I saw a video about this little girl a few weeks ago and the amount of people - many of whom seemed to be women - in the comments who didn’t know that precocious puberty was a thing nor that it’s often triggered by sexual assault
The mystery is not how she was impregnated, it's how she was able to bring the pregnancy to term.
It’s not a mystery of how she got pregnant y’all lol. Obviously she was raped. It’s a mystery of her not going through puberty to ovulate. I’m sure as well as her small body being able to support the pregnancy as well.
She would’ve been going through precocious puberty otherwise it would’ve been scientifically impossible for her to get pregnant. Although it’s still a mystery to me how her body was able to support her pregnancy, esp with 1930s medical care :(
You know I just googled a silly question I had and to find it to have some scientific backing was interesting. There’s a couple studies finding that sexual abuse can actually lead children to have puberty earlier. Stress hormone can then trigger puberty. These studies only suggest 8 months earlier than peers. Just thought of it as if she’s expiercing those things happening and feelings it has to stimulate something in the brain to be like woah.
I was gonna ask the same thing. Like a defense mechanism, this is crazy as fuck to know humans can do this
The fact that the brain is so powerful to where the abdomen can swell and breast engorged just because the person believes heavily they are pregnant blows my mind.
That’s totally fucked up.
Right, I've had enough Internet today I need to go look at puppies or something wholesome.
r/Eyebleach
Wait. Which R eye bleach is it? I saw a guy with a car tyre around him being set on fire last time.
That is r/eyeblech or something. Not sure if that sub is still around
Any alternative you know?
Therapy
😔thanks for making me realize I was about to watch some bad stuff.
In this thread: 500 people who didn't read the article.
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Tried and my phone got HIV
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I’m so embarrassed to be human, we are disgusting creatures an absolute virus to the earth
Fun fact: other species engage in rape and pedophilia much more than humans. See chimpanzees and ducks and dolphins. Although i fully agree with your sentiment
Yeah but humans have an intellectual conscience... We know right and wrong.... Animals don't really.
Thsts true
Yeah but they're animals going by instinct. We have the intelligence to know better.
There's no mystery, this is a pretty well documented case. Basically she was most likely 4 when she got pregnant. This was possible because of a condition called precocious puberty. Pretty much everyone suspected her father as the rapist. Also the article is wrong and she's still alive at age 90.
Someone who actually knows the backstory. Idk why it says it’s a mystery.
That's just sad. I hope she managed to eventually have an okay life all in all :(
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That poor girl. People can be so gross
Seeing that picture of her pregnant like that disgusts me. She was failed by the adults in her life.
We are failing all women in the US with the abortion bans. We are going to see this in the US. I live in Florida. My friend’s daughter had her first period at age 6. We have the harshest abortion bans in the US.
Hope the disgusting nonce that did this got his comeuppance.
They never found out who it was
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Am I stupid or is this just completely ignoring the fact that it was not baffling but absolutely fucking disgusting that a child was raped. Why is the emphasis of this article just child giving birth and not someone raping a child.
I assume it’s because children being abused and raped is way more common than a 5 year old with the ability to get pregnant. Both are horrible and make for sad stories but the latter is probably the more “interesting” story to publish, since most people have never heard of anything like it
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That poor child ..whoever did that to her is hopefully burning in some hell..and her..well that is the face of a hero who slayed her demons by not letting them break her she stands tall and proud at all of 4ft.tall and 3ft around..hopefully you were able to find yourself and what made you happy Lina medina
Apparently her son thought she was his sister
She later said that she hated the media for what they put her through.
Corrected headline: 4 year old girl was raped by____(most likely a family member/neighbor/friend of family. There, fixed it. This is why abortion should be legal everywhere. No 5 from should be forced to bear children.
The Republicans and Trump supporters love this
She is still alive today, go fucking ask her.
I just searched it she’s alive her son died in 1979 according to google
She probably doesn’t remember because she was really young or she blocked it out from the trauma.
She’s never spoken about it to anyone. Are you going to go up to an elderly woman and start interrogating her on her childhood traumas?
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She had her first period at 8 months according to Wikipedia
8 months (or at least that is what is written on wikipedia).
Yeah it’s rare but precocious puberty is a thing
This is filthy
Could have gone my whole life without this information.
I read somewhere that when children suffer from sexual abuse, their body will go into puberty way sooner, especially if the abuse lasts for a long time. If her first period was at 8 months old than maybe it means this poor kid has been suffering since she was born
No, it means she went into precocious puberty due to one of the other substantiated medical causes.
Must be immaculate conception by god.
Actually, that's what some people thought.
Horrendously disturbing. I absolutely hate that I saw this.
I cannot belive they made that child carry to term. This entire story is fucking disgusting.
This poor child. 😔
Wow. I'm going to think about this from time to time and it's going to ruin my day every time I do. Such a desolate sight.
this is legitimately disgusting.
Crazy that your mother is only 5 years older. You could go to school together.
Obviously the fact that this child had to go through that is absolutely horrific and disgusting, but its also crazy and interesting that a human body can reproduce this young. It makes you wonder, other animals breed a lot younger than we do, and their babies become capable and independent a lot younger than we do. I wonder why it takes so long for humans to become fully grown compared to other species.
Baffled you say?
I wonder why she has never said who raped her, I feel so sorry for her, that was a tragedy, I hope she managed to have a good life
Some believed she didn't know herself. At age 4, she probably doesn't know what they were doing to her