The girl’s mother (26) told The Sunday News said that her
daughter started her monthly menstrual cycle when she was just seven years-old
in 2020. “She does not know what is wrong with her, that she is pregnant. The
last time I saw her she asked me if I would take her home once she heals from
her sickness, as that is what she knows. I started to see her menstruating in
2020 and she was seven years old then and I took her to the clinic to find out
what the cause could have been. They told me that it was possible for her to
menstruate early owing to the foods children eat nowadays. We returned home,
then this year (August), I noticed that her stomach was swelling and took her
to the hospital once more and there it was discovered that she was pregnant. I
was not expecting that she could be pregnant because it is actually a shock and
something foreign to us that a nine-year-old child can fall pregnant.”
It emerged that the father of the child told her that “goblins will visit her at night and insert something in her private parts.” The father (29) was arrested on 29 August 2022.
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