A nine-year-old girl has been confirmed pregnant.
According to the Zimbabwean Health Times, the nine-year-old expectant mother who is 33-month pregnant, is currently on admission at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) for necessary medical attention and monitoring till childbirth.
The magazine recalls: “This comes a few weeks after a 13-year-old girl from Mkhosana Township in Victoria Falls wrote part of her Zimsec Grade Seven examinations on a hospital bed soon after giving birth at Victoria Falls Hospital.
In the Victoria Falls case, the girl was not aware that she was pregnant until a month before giving birth”.
The UBH case has seen the nine-year-old, who is about one month away from giving birth, being monitored by a team of specialist doctors and nurses owing to the delicate nature of the pregnancy.
Reports say the nine-year-old is from Tsholotsho District in Matabeleland North Province with officials from the Department of Social Welfare in the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare investigating the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy.
Sources claimed she could have been raped and impregnated by a “close person”, hence the investigations involving the police.
“There was a 12-year-old victim of sexual abuse, and now we have this nine-year-old and it’s a bit unfortunate that we see such a case,” said Dr Rambanapasi.
Reports further said the youngest mother in world history was a five-year-old Peruvian, who gave birth via an operation in May, 1939.