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Sep. 17th, 2004 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingWorld's Youngest Mother was...
Drum roll, please...
Five years old.
"Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to a hospital.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy."
Snopes adds: "Lina's incredible story was documented in contemporaneous reports by Edmundo Escomel, one of Peru's preeminent physician-researchers of the period and a laureate of the prestigious French Academy of Sciences.
At the end of his piece Escomel noted with some sadness that no one had yet discovered the identity of the father since Lina 'couldn't give precise responses.'"
He was 10 years old before he learned that the girl he knew as his sister was actually his mother.
Drum roll, please...
Five years old.
"Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to a hospital.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy."
Snopes adds: "Lina's incredible story was documented in contemporaneous reports by Edmundo Escomel, one of Peru's preeminent physician-researchers of the period and a laureate of the prestigious French Academy of Sciences.
At the end of his piece Escomel noted with some sadness that no one had yet discovered the identity of the father since Lina 'couldn't give precise responses.'"
He was 10 years old before he learned that the girl he knew as his sister was actually his mother.