Date Mother Age of mother Father Country Description

April 20, 1834 10 years Unknown United States Sally Deweese of Butler County, Kentucky was reported by Dr. D. Rowlett to have delivered a girl weighing 7.75 pounds (3.52 kg). Deweese allegedly developed breasts within weeks of birth and began menstruating at 12 months.[65]

February 1, 1858 10 years,

8 months Her aunt's nephew, reported to be 15–17 years old United States Elizabeth Drayton of Taunton, Massachusetts was reported to have given birth naturally to a boy weighing 8 lb (3.6 kg) after having been in labor for two or three days.[66]

April 1873 Unidentified 10 years,

6 months "A native gentleman" British India

(now India) In an account published in 1873, C. MacNamara described having been called in early spring to examine a baby boy in Calcutta, who had reportedly been born to a 10-year-old girl.[67]

September 10, 1895 10 years,

1 month Her 56-year-old father United States Annie H., born in Bland County, Virginia, gave birth to a baby weighing 5 lb (2.3 kg). As the girl had undeveloped breasts and could not produce milk, her mother, who had given birth to a child herself a few months prior, nursed the girl's baby for the week it lived. Annie H. was stated to have started menstruating regularly at age five.[68]

December 13, 1905 10 years,

2 months Unknown United States Sallie Ellison gave birth to a baby weighing 8 lb (3.6 kg) at the age of 10 years, 2 months in Bristol, Virginia.[69]

April 9, 1910 10 years Unknown United States Annie Epps of Chicago gave birth to a girl weighing 6 lb (2.7 kg) at the county hospital in 1910.[70][71]

July 30, 1922 10 years Rev. L. W. Irwin, her stepfather, charged with contributing to her delinquency[72] United States Elizabeth Irwin of Hardin County, Ohio gave birth to a boy weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) in 1922.[72][73] Reverend Irwin reportedly prayed for the salvation of the jury that later convicted him.[74]

February 1923 10 years Willie Larue, the 26-year-old son of the girl's foster parents United States Mary Cavender of Hidalgo County, Texas gave birth to a boy weighing 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) in 1923.[75][76][77] Admitting his paternity, Willie Larue was charged with having "improper relations" with Cavender and sentenced to 15 years in prison.[78]

April 4, 1930 10 years Unknown United States Evilan Johnson gave birth to a baby weighing 8 lb (3.6 kg) at a hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1930.[79]

October 10, 1939 10 years Her boyfriend Argentina María Justina Lez of Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina gave birth to a girl at San Roque Hospital in 1939. The child's father reportedly petitioned for the right to marry the mother, as marriage was forbidden to girls under 13 years of age.[80]

January 10, 1944 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl gave birth naturally to a daughter weighing 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) at a hospital in Monahans, Texas in 1944.[81][82]

March 3, 1949 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl gave birth to a daughter weighing 7.3 lb (3.3 kg) at a hospital in Wilmington, Delaware in 1949.[83]

May 20, 1949 Unidentified 10 years,

7 months Unknown United States A girl gave birth to a boy weighing 7.8 lb (3.5 kg) at Barber Hospital in Butler, Alabama in 1949.[84]

May 25, 1950 10 years,

7 months Unknown United States Sarah Moore gave birth prematurely to a girl in Charleston, Mississippi in 1950.[85]

June 21, 1950 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl gave birth to a baby boy weighing 6.5 lb (2.9 kg) at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska in 1950.[86]

July 13, 1951 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl gave birth to a boy weighing 7.19 lb (3.26 kg) in Picayune, Mississippi; the girl's mother was 23 at the time.[87]

June 14, 1953 Unidentified 10 years A 50-year-old man who lived in the same apartment building as her foster parents. United States A girl gave birth to a daughter weighing 5.94 lb (2.69 kg) at a home for unwed mothers in Youngstown, Ohio in 1953.[88][89]

November 30, 1954 10 years Unknown Costa Rica Felicia Delgado Gomez gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 5.75 lb (2.61 kg) at a hospital in Limón, Costa Rica, in 1954.[90][91]

August 3, 1956 Unidentified 10 years Her 18-year-old brother, who was arrested United States A girl from Spartanburg County, South Carolina gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 6 lb (2.7 kg) in the city of Spartanburg.[92]

January 22, 1958 Unidentified 10 years Her older sister's husband, age 28, was charged[93] United States A girl gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 7 lb (3.2 kg) at a hospital in San Francisco.[94]

February 6, 1964 10 years Unknown Mexico María Sanchez Gonzalez of Colonia Morelos, Mexico City gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 5.5 lb (2.5 kg).[95]

February 12, 1964 Unidentified 10 years,

4 months[96] A 16-year-old boy, her foster family's son United States A 10-year-old gave birth by cesarean section to a daughter weighing 5.94 lb (2.69 kg) at a hospital in Chicago.[97]

September 17, 1967 10 years Her family's neighbor for whom the girl worked as a servant; he was arrested for rape Mexico Hortensia Gomez Juan gave birth to a boy weighing 4.44 lb (2.01 kg) in Xalapa, Mexico in 1967.[98][ not in citation given ]

November 29, 1968 Unidentified 10 years Unknown Belgium In 1968, a 10-year-old gave birth by cesarean section in Antwerp, Belgium.[99]

July 1969 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl gave birth naturally to a boy weighing 5.63 lb (2.55 kg) at Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia on July 29, 1969.[100]

August 14, 1971 10 years Unknown Argentina Mirta Fontora, a girl from Pilar Partido, Argentina, gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 6.5 lb (2.9 kg) at a hospital in Pilar.[101][102]

May 25, 1979 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl age 10 gave birth six weeks premature to twin girls, both weighing 3.38 lb (1.53 kg), by induced labor at a hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is thought to have been the youngest mother of twins in U.S. history at the time.[103]

July 7, 1982 Unidentified 10 years Unknown United States A girl age 10 from a rural town in eastern Texas gave birth to a premature baby girl, weighing 4.5 lb (2.0 kg), at Hermann Hospital in Houston. All other details were withheld by request.[104][105]

April 5, 1984 Unidentified 10 years,

8 months The girl's uncle and the husband of one of her babysitters were both charged with molesting her United States A 10-year-old gave birth naturally to a 6.25 lb (2.83 kg) baby girl in Chicago.[96][106] The girl, who had not known she was pregnant, went to St. Anthony Hospital on April 4 seeking treatment for abdominal pain, and was transferred to the high-risk maternity unit at Cook County Hospital the next day.[96] The girl's uncle and her babysitter's husband were accused of raping her: the uncle admitted to doing so six times, but the babysitter's husband denied the allegations and passed a polygraph.[107]

April 5, 1996 Unidentified 10 years A neighbor Brazil In 1996, a 10-year-old gave birth by cesarean section in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso.[108] A neighbor raped her.

July 1998 Unidentified 10 years,

5 months Paul Narvios, the 50-year-old companion of her mother United States Taking advantage of his relationship with her mother that lasted a few months between late 1997 and early 1998, Paul Narvios, 50, raped the girl 19 times when she was between ​ 9 1⁄ 2 and 10 years old. She exposed him and gave birth in San Mateo County, California. Narvios was revealed to be the child's father via DNA evidence. He was sentenced on September 8, 1999 to thirty-one years in prison, including a twenty-six years security, and $40,000 fine, with prohibition from reapproaching mother, daughter, and baby.[109]

September 25, 2000 Unidentified 10 years Her 28-year-old brother, who was arrested on a charge of rape Argentina

(originally from

Bolivia) A girl from Bolivia gave birth to a daughter weighing 2.5 kilograms (5.5 lb) by cesarean section at a hospital in Parque Patricios. Buenos Aires.[110][111]

September 23, 2002 Unidentified 10 years A 38-year-old man, the brother of the girl's mother's boyfriend, was arrested Saint Lucia A 10-year-old gave birth to a boy weighing 4 lb (1.8 kg) in Saint Lucia.[112]

November 2, 2003 10 years,

9 months A schoolfriend, allegedly 10 years old, though most likely 12 Zimbabwe Samantha Goodman, 10 years old, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gave birth in Materdei Hospital to a 6 lb (2.7 kg) girl, who was named Courtney. When Goodman was 16, she explained in detail what had happened six years earlier: "At a party at a friend early 2003, playing hide and seek, we slipped into the family's library, where we took a book for adults and laughed on the picture of a guy with his sex in a girl's one, and we thought it would be funny that we were trying to do it... We did it! It was funny! A few months later, my mother noticed that my belly had grown enormously. Driving me so urgently to the doctor, she was shocked to discover I was pregnant. Very devout, it was out of question for her I abort... At the idea of giving birth, I was very scared, but, ultimately, it was less painful than when I broke my arm!"[113]

November 13, 2003 Unidentified 10 years Unknown Peru A girl from Monzón District, Peru gave birth by cesarean section to a baby weighing over 3 kg (6.6 lb) at Hermilio Valdizán Hospital in Huánuco.[114]

January 7, 2004 Unidentified 10 years The 29-year-old boyfriend of her 21-year-old sister Argentina A 10-year-old gave birth to a baby weighing 3.22 kg (7.1 lb) in Merlo Partido, Argentina.[115]

April 13, 2005 10 years Luis Ramos Coral, her 24-year-old stepfather Chile

(originally from

Bolivia) A Bolivian girl living in Calama, Chile, gave birth to a boy by cesarean section at a hospital in Antofagasta. The child became pregnant after her stepfather raped her at age 9. Her mother and step-father, who both came from Colchaca village in Potosí, Bolivia, were jailed.[116][117][118][119]

June 27, 2005 10 years The approximately 60-year-old caregiver who had nurtured her since her earliest childhood Kenya Gladys Chelagat from Kericho, Rift Valley Province gave birth to a boy weighing 6.17 lb (2.80 kg) by cesarean section at a district hospital.[120]

August 28, 2005 Unidentified 10 years Unknown; her stepfather and her brother were suspected Switzerland

(originally from

Cameroon) A young girl gave birth to a daughter at a hospital in Sion, Switzerland. She had immigrated from Cameroon to Martigny, then Sierre, Switzerland, with her siblings after her mother married a Swiss citizen. A 68-year-old man who was in a relationship with the mother admitted to having molested the girl but a DNA test found that he was not the father of the girl's child.[121][122][123]

April 3, 2006 10 years,

6 months Juan Ruelas Martínez, her family's 47-year-old neighbor Mexico Monserrat Alvarado Gómez of Jaral del Progreso, Guanajuato born on September 16, 1995, gave birth naturally to a girl weighing 2.3 kilograms (5.1 lb) whom, she named Marisol. Ruelas Martínez, her neighbor, was sentenced to ​ 11 1⁄ 2 years in prison for raping her.[124][125]

April 2006 Unidentified 10 years William Edward Ronca, her 26-year-old stepfather United States A young girl in Abbeville, South Carolina gave birth by cesarean section. Her 26-year-old stepfather, William Edward Ronca, raped her. The baby was placed up for adoption.[126] Ronca admitted to having molested the girl over a two-year period and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

April 2006 Unidentified 10 years,

9 months Julián Andrés H. López, the 30-year-old Colombian boyfriend of her babysitter, who was arrested Spain

(originally from

Colombia) A Colombian girl gave birth to a daughter in Ourense, Spain. While the mother was away, the girl's babysitter had her boyfriend over the house, and the boyfriend raped the girl.[127]

June 14, 2006 Unidentified 10 years Unknown Brazil In 2006, a 10-year-old gave birth by cesarean section to a baby in Marechal Deodoro, Brazil.[128]

July 2006 Unidentified 10 years Her 13-year-old boyfriend Belgium A girl from Montigny-le-Tilleul gave birth in 2006 to a child fathered by her boyfriend and schoolmate. After she had begun gaining weight, her mother put her on a diet, but when the girl visited a doctor, it was discovered that she was nine months pregnant. News of the birth did not become publicly known until 2007.[129]

August 14, 2006 Unidentified 10 years,

5 months Her father Mauritius A young girl, born on March 5, 1996, began menstruating at age 8. One day in November 2005, she was sick, and stayed at home with her father. On that day, he raped her. She gave birth to her daughter by cesarean section on August 14, 2006, and the father was sent to prison.[130]

October 20, 2006 N. 10 years,

10 months Francisco das Chagas, her 26-year-old boyfriend Brazil N., daughter of Francisca Ferreira dos Santos and born on December 12, 1995, gave birth by cesarean section to a baby girl at São Camilo de Itapipoca hospital in Itapipoca, Brazil. Francisco das Chagas de Lima, her boyfriend, was also her 14-year-old sister's ex-boyfriend.[131][132]

July 2, 2007 Lucila 10 years Noé Velásquez Velásquez, her parents' 65-year-old landlord Mexico In 2007, 10-year-old Lucila of San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca gave birth to a boy.[133][134][135][136] Noé Velásquez Velásquez, the landlord of the house her parents rented, was jailed.

November 9, 2007 "Evita" 10 years Alejandro Torres, her 22-year-old cousin Nicaragua Originally from the rural island region of El Tortuguero, the poorest part of Nicaragua, 10-year-old "Evita" gave birth by cesarean section in Managua after spending two months in Bluefields. Four months earlier, her mother had summoned a campaign doctor to their farm to examine her daughter's inflated abdomen; the doctor found that she was 5 months pregnant. A few weeks later, her mother revealed to the press that Evita's 22-year-old cousin Alejandro raped Evita.[137]

February 29, 2008 Rosa "Rosita" 10 years,

8 months Carmen Aguilar, her 33-year-old stepfather Nicaragua Rosa ("the other Rosita"),[note 3] born June 25, 1997 in San Miguelito, Rio San Juan Department, gave birth to a boy by cesarean section at ​ 8 1⁄ 2 months of pregnancy at the Bertha Calderón Hospital in Managua. Sexually assaulted since age 8 by her stepfather Carmen, she never experienced menstruation, as she became pregnant at her first ovulation. Her stepfather would beat and whip her to subdue her. Her pregnancy was discovered by chance at ​ 5 1⁄ 2 months, during a tour of rural medical for the poor in early December 2007.[138]

April 28, 2008 Unidentified 10 years Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, her 37-year-old stepfather United States Isabel Chasearez's 10-year-old daughter, from St. Anthony, Idaho, gave birth by cesarean section to a girl weighing approximately 6 lb (2.7 kg) at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg after her mother's boyfriend raped her.[ not in citation given ] The man, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was jailed on one felony count of rape with impregnation; Chasearez was jailed as well for failing to provide proper prenatal care.[139][140]

March 18, 2009 Unidentified 10 years Fede Datilus, a 33-year-old sex offender United States

(originally from

Haiti) A 10-year-old Haitian girl of Lantana, Florida, became pregnant after a 33-year-old man raped her when she was 9. Her father learned of her pregnancy only when he took her to the clinic when she suffered labor contractions on March 18, 2009. The same day, she gave birth naturally to a full-term boy. Reluctantly, she exposed Datilus to investigators who interviewed her through a Haitian Creole interpreter (she spoke only little English, having arrived illegally in the U.S. only 30 months before). She confided that she had been afraid that she and her father would be deported to Haiti – a threat the rapist had used against her. Datilus was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a minor under 12 years, to which 5 years for impregnating her was added.[141]

April 2009 Unidentified 10 years,

9 months Flávio de Oliveira, her 24-year-old stepfather Brazil A 10-year-old girl from Lagoa Grande, Minas Gerais gave birth to a boy by cesarean section in late April 2009. The director of her school learned of the girl's pregnancy on March 20 after hearing about it in playground discussions among children. The director alerted the judicial and medical-social authorities, and immediately took her to the clinic, where her condition was confirmed: the girl was almost 8 months pregnant, though it was not visible on her. That evening, she exposed her stepfather, who was arrested as he tried to escape to Gurupi in Tocantins, 470 miles (760 km) to the north, and jailed. In March 2008, he began raping her. He impregnated her in late July 2008.[142][143]

June 8, 2009 Unidentified 10 years Her stepfather South Africa A girl from Mitchell's Plain township, southeast of Cape Town became pregnant after her 21-year-old uncle raped her. She became convinced that she was in love with him and that he was the father of her child.[144] However, DNA evidence proved the father was her 25-year-old stepfather, who had raped her as well. The girl gave birth to a daughter on June 8, 2009.[ citation needed ]

December 14, 2009 Unidentified 10 years A man in his mid-30s Jamaica A girl from Mountainside, Jamaica gave birth to a baby girl who died three weeks later.[145]

January 4, 2010 10 years Her 15-year-old brother Bolivia M.P., from El Torno, Bolivia, gave birth by cesarean section to a girl weighing 2.3 kg (5.1 lb) at the Instituto Maternológico Percy Boland in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.[146] Three of the girl's brothers raped her. They were 15, 17, and 19. The youngest one was her child's biological father.[147]

May 2010 Unidentified 10 years Unknown; thought to be her second child's father, a 46-year-old mason Bolivia The father of a 10-year-old girl's first baby was not originally known, but when the same girl from Cabezas came back to Percy Boland Hospital, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at age 12 to give birth again, authorities succeeded to get her to talk. They apprehended a 49-year-old mason, confirmed father of the second baby and suspected of the first. He was sentenced for rape and impregnation of a minor. It is suspected that the girl's family had allowed men to rape her in exchange for money.[148]

May 2010 10 years Her father Bolivia The 10-year-old, initials M. L. Ch. R., from Zanja Honda, Tarija, gave birth to a 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) girl by cesarean section at the Percy Boland Maternity after a 49-year-old mason allegedly raped her. 15 months after her first child was born, she became pregnant with a son, and claimed that the father was a young man named Armando.[149][150] After her second child was born on May 7, 2012, she disappeared, and her mother admitted that both of her daughter's children were from the daughter's biological father, who had raped his child since she was 8.[151]

July 12, 2010 Unidentified 10 years,

7 months Her 12- or 13-year-old boyfriend Russia The girl, from a village near Kazan, Russia, menstruated early and became pregnant shortly before she was 10, gave birth one month prematurely to a girl in Kazan.[152]

August 19, 2010 "Camille" 10 years Her 27-year-old father Philippines A 10-year-old girl, known in the media as "Camille", gave birth to a boy in Cotabato City. Her father, who was unemployed and often drunk, began raping her when she was 8.[153][154]

October 26, 2010 10 years,

6 months Gheorghe Mecic, her 13-year-old cousin and ex-fiance Spain Elena Chiritescu, a gypsy girl, gave birth to a 6.4 lb (2.9 kg) girl named Nicoletta Narcissa at a hospital in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.[155][156] Chiritescu was already pregnant when she moved to Spain and was seen selling flowers with her family during a local celebration in Lebrija, when she was in the latest stages of pregnancy. Mecic remained in Romania.[157]

October 29, 2010 Unidentified 10 years Her 24-year-old distant cousin Colombia A girl of the Wiwa people gave birth by cesarean section at San Rafael Hospital in San Juan del Cesar. In late January, the girl's mother, Sebastiana María Nieves, was absent for ten days at her sick mother's bedside. During this time, when her mother was away, a 24-year-old distant cousin raped the girl.[158]

November 10, 2010 Unidentified 10 years Her father Bolivia A girl gave birth to a boy weighing 2.3 kg (5.1 lb) at the Percy Boland maternity ward in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.[159]

January 19, 2011 10 years Unknown Argentina Paulina A., a Guaraní girl from Puerto Leoni, gave birth by cesarean section to a boy weighing 3.1 kg (6.8 lb) at a hospital in Posadas. Although her personal documentation gave her age as 10, it was suspected that she was older.[160]

October 22, 2011 Edith 10 years,

10 months Alberto Hernández Loeza, her 28-year-old stepfather Mexico A 10-year-old girl from the community of San Francisco Totimehuacan gave birth by cesarean section to a premature boy weighing 3.3 lb (1.5 kg) in Puebla.[161] She initially stated that the father was a "graying gringo with a sombrero";[162] however, her mother revealed during police interviews that the biological father was the girl's stepfather, who had raped her.[163]

January 24, 2012 [ not in citation given ] 10 years,

7 months Gaudencio Castañeda Pulido, her elder sister's 45-year-old partner Peru Laura Marina Villanueva, from Santa Marta, Peru. Her older sister's 45-year-old companion, a former soldier and her neighbor, raped the girl three times, just before her birthday on June 24. Her pregnancy was discovered in late September, at 19 weeks, by chance after she was admitted for a snake bite. The father, Gaudencio Castañeda Pulido, has been on the run when the discovery was reported in the media and continued threatening to kill the girl and her mother, Nidia Villanueva Tolentino. On January 24, 2012, she delivered a 2.21 kilograms (4.9 lb) boy by cesarean section, whom she named Justin, after singer Justin Bieber. Castañeda Pulido, who had previously impregnated the girl's then-15-year-old sister, was sentenced to 35 years in jail.[164][165]

March 29, 2012 Unidentified 10 years Unknown; a 15-year-old associate of the girl is suspected Colombia A girl of the Wayuu people gave birth to a 2.6 kg (5.7 lb), 47 cm (19 in) girl by cesarean section at a clinic in Riohacha. She rejected her daughter.[166][167][168][169]

May 2012 Unidentified 10 years,

9 months Antônio Lisboa Filho, her 28-year-old father Brazil In late December 2011, Antônio Lisboa Filho, age 28, discovered that his ten-and-a-half-year-old daughter, whom he had been raping regularly since she was eight, was 4 months pregnant. He fled from Coroatá, Maranhão with his wife Maria Alves Conceição and their other children, abandoning the girl with her maternal grandmother. Francisca Maria Conceição, the grandmother, alerted authorities of the rape and the parents' subsequent escape. As the pregnancy had advanced past the legal cut-off date for abortions, the girl delivered the baby via cesarean section in early May 2012, a month before term.[170] According to police testimony, the man is also suspected of raping the girl's 8-year-old sister.[171]

May 11, 2012 Unidentified 10 years,

11 months Her 15-year-old distant cousin Argentina The girl, from San Miguel, Argentina, was admitted to the Vidal hospital in Corrientes in early March 2012 after complaining of stomach pains and a swollen stomach. After an ultrasound the doctors realized that she was 26 weeks pregnant. The young girl stated that a 15-year-old distant cousin raped her in late August 2011. He has since been prosecuted. She gave birth one month before term by cesarean section to a 2.420 kg (5.34 lb), 45 cm (18 in) girl, who was named Tatiana and placed in an incubator and on a drip-feed.[172]