A 13-year-old teen from Dewathang has given birth to a girl last week, reports the government-run Kuensel, Thursday.
According to the gynecologist Dr Yu Yu Lwla at the Dewathang Military Hospital, the teen-mother underwent a cesarean for the delivery. She is reportedly recovering from an infection in her womb.
The 13-year-old could not breast feed the baby. She complained of pain in her breast. Her mother, in her late 30s, who also has a month and a half old baby, in the mean time is breast feeding the granddaughter, added the report.
The eldest among the five siblings in her family, the teen-mother is a victim of rape and was studying in grade four at the time of the ill-fate. However, the family could file a report at police only after five month of pregnancy, according to the report.
The rapist, who immediately married another woman after the crime, was kept in custody for two weeks and released.
“We could not continue fighting the case then and requested police that we would follow up after the delivery,” her mother lamented, adding, “The child’s father is now refusing to accept the child.”
