Lina Medina is a Peruvian woman who is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 17 days.
When
she was five years old, Lina Medina of Ticrapo, Huancavelica Region,
Peru was brought to a hospital by her parents because of her increasing
abdominal size. Lina’s parents suspected that their daughter was
suffering from a tumor in her stomach, but doctors were instead shocked
to discover that the young female was in her seventh month of pregnancy.
Expectedly, her parents were shocked, but they later revealed that
their daughter had strangely begun menstruating when she was only eight
months old and had prominent breasts by the time she was four.
Dr. Gerardo Lozada took Lina to Peru so that other specialists could confirm that she was indeed expecting. That move expectedly attracted a lot of attention. In fact, a North American filmmaking company offered Lina and her family $5,000 for the rights to document the unbelievable story. The offer was rejected.
Meanwhile,
at Peru, the original diagnosis of Lina’s advanced pregnancy was
upheld, and on May 14, 1939, Lina delivered a healthy baby boy, Gerardo
Medina, via caesarian section. Doctors who performed the surgery noted
that Lina already had fully mature sexual organs at the time she gave
birth to her son. The boy, by the way, was raised to believe that Lina
was actually her sister, but at ten years of age, he discovered that
Lina was really his mother.
Nevertheless, they continued to treat eachother like brother and sister
On
the question of who had gotten Lina pregnant, her father, Tiburelo
Medina, was actually arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse.
However, he was later released due to lack of evidence. In fact, even
Lina herself did not seem to have any idea regarding the circumstances
of her impregnation. Nevertheless, she managed to live her life quite
normally, completing her schooling and working as a secretary, although
Gerardo died at forty due to bone marrow disease.
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