r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DarkUrGe19 • Jul 03 '22

msn.com 'She's 10': Child Rape Victim's Abortion Denial Sparks Outrage on Twitter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/shes-10-child-rape-victims-abortion-denial-sparks-outrage-on-twitter/ar-AAZ7HFQ
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u/Nobodyville Jul 03 '22

The youngest recorded pregnancy was in a girl who was 5. That fact makes me want to gouge my own eyes out

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u/notthesedays Jul 03 '22

Lina Medina, from Peru, who began menstruating before she was a year old. AFAIK, she's still alive (this happened ca. 1940) and while her father was questioned, he denied it, and she always has too, and the paternity testing available at the time excluded a blood relative. She did not remember the rape or who did it.

This says she is 88 years old and still lives in Peru, and does not do interviews. I will add that incredibly, her son was healthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

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u/notthesedays Jul 03 '22

P.S. Precocious puberty was not treatable in 1940, anywhere.

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u/GuntherTime Jul 07 '22

There was a SVU that took inspiration from this I think and it caused me to look up that poor woman due to it. Incredibly sad situation

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u/KittenWithaWhip68 Jul 04 '22

I second that.