By H. Nelson Goodson
February 10, 2013
Guadalajara, Mexico - A 17-year-old boy is wanted in the state of Jalisco who on January 27, fathered a baby girl with Dafne, a 9-year-old girl, according to Jorge Villaseñor from the State of Jalisco Attorney General's Office.
Authorities in Jalisco were alerted by medical staff from the Zoquipan General Hospital in Guadalajara that a 9-year-old girl had given birth by cesarean to a baby girl. The father of the baby is a 17-year-old who is facing criminal charges for having sex with a child.
The girl who became pregnant at the age of 8 and months admitted to authorities that the boy was her boyfriend and she had consensual sex with him. Both the girl and boy are from the municipality of Ixtlahaurán de los Membrillos.
According to authorities in Mexico, it not to uncommon in Mexico for young girls between the ages of 10 to 18 to get birth. Every year, an estimated 480,000 babies are born to young women under the age of 18.
In 2004, a 10-year-old girl gave birth to a child after she was raped by an 18-year-old man, according to
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