Girl, 10, 'gives birth' in Spain

EpyonXero · 11-03-2010, 10:17 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11684854

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November 2010 Last updated at 08:45 ET

Girl, 10, 'gives birth' in Spain
According to official statistics, a total of 178 girls under 15 gave birth to children in 2008

A 10-year-old girl, believed to be of Romanian origin, is reported to have given birth in southern Spain.

The girl gave birth to a daughter last week in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, according to Andalusia's social affairs minister Micaela Navarro, the AP news agency reports.

The father of the baby is also believed to be a minor, aged 13, reports say.

Officials are deciding whether the mother and her family can keep custody, newspaper Diario de Sevilla reports.

The baby's grandmother was photographed in Spanish newspapers smiling outside the family's modest block of flats in the town of Lebrija, AFP reports.

Her 10-year-old daughter is reported to have moved to Spain from Romania just three weeks ago.

The woman, identified only as Olimpia, was quoted as saying that the mother was "very well, like the daughter, who is very well and very pretty".

According to the Andalucia daily, Diario de Jerez, which first reported the story, the grandmother could not understand the wide level of interest in the case as "this is the age we get married in Romania".

According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, 178 girls under the age of 15 gave birth in Spain in 2008.

tommymac · 11-03-2010, 10:47 AM

Wouldnt be too newsworthy where I work either seen many 12 and 13 yr olds with kids so its nothing new here.

pauldun170 · 11-03-2010, 11:31 AM

Damn gypsies

Particle Man · 11-03-2010, 11:39 AM

I have no desire to go to Spain. This doesn't help change my mind.

azoomm · 11-03-2010, 01:43 PM

Why is "gives birth" in quotes?

shmike · 11-03-2010, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by azoomm

Why is "gives birth" in quotes?

That was my first thought.

EpyonXero · 11-03-2010, 01:45 PM

Maybe its a British thing?

dubbs · 11-03-2010, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by shmike

That was my first thought.

Maybe because it's completely fucked up? and most likely emphasis.

101lifts2 · 11-04-2010, 12:18 AM

Unfucking real.

tallywacker · 11-04-2010, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dubbs

Maybe because it's completely fucked up? and most likely emphasis.

I still don't see why you would use them. "Gives Birth" would me something like she got ran over by a truck and it squeezed the body out or if you were eluding to she had a C-section possibly.

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tommymac Moto GP Star Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,022	Wouldnt be too newsworthy where I work either seen many 12 and 13 yr olds with kids so its nothing new here.