Who impregnated Lina Medina?
Parents in a remote Peruvian community noticed their 5-year-old daughter’s swollen belly in the early spring of 1939. Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea drove their young daughter away from their Ticrapo house to see a doctor in Lima out of concern that the swelling might be a tumor. The doctor unexpectedly found that Lina Medina,…
Parents in a remote Peruvian community noticed their 5-year-old daughter’s swollen belly in the early spring of 1939.
Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea drove their young daughter away from their Ticrapo house to see a doctor in Lima out of concern that the swelling might be a tumor.
The doctor unexpectedly found that Lina Medina, the parents’ daughter, was seven months pregnant. A healthy son was born to Medina through C-section on May 14, 1939.
She became a mother for the first time at the age of 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days.
Who impregnated Lina Medina?
Medina’s circumstance caught paediatricians off stride and attracted worldwide exposure that neither she nor her family wanted.
Medina has never given the authorities the father’s identity, and she and her family continue to shun the media and an opportunity for an open conversation.
Even if the circumstances behind the world’s youngest mother remain a mystery, new details regarding Lina Medina’s pregnancy and the father’s name have come to light.
