An 11-year-old pregnant girl who was raped by her 42-year-old step father, Gilberto Benitez Zárate, has given birth yesterday.
Mirror.co.uk reports that the Paraguayan girl got the attention of various international child right group when it became known that she was pregnant in May 2015 at age 10. Paraguay has one of the strongest laws against abortion in the world. Amnesty international and some other rights organization had called for the termination of the pregnancy of the little girl because of the psychological trauma she will undergo but the Paraguayan government maintained their stand, saying the little girl will be given the much needed attention for her to give birth normally.
The girl who was sexually assaulted by her 42 year old step father delivered a baby girl at a Paraguayan hospital yesterday, Thursday, August 13, 2015. Gilberto who is married to the young girl’s mother was said to have denied having any sexual affair with the girl at first but gave in later. When he was arrested, he demanded a test saying he could not have gotten the girl pregnant because ‘he has been with tonnes of women and has never got anybody pregnant‘.
Gilberto Benitez Zarate alleged victim has been denied an abortion
The new mother gave birth through a ceasarian section to a girl that weighed 3.5 kilos (eight pounds).
A statement from Amnesty said while the girl is thankfully stable “the director of the hospital she was taken to has publicly acknowledged that her pregnancy puts her at high risk”. The statement added: “This is confirmed by the World Health Organisation and health professionals around the world who all agree that pregnancy poses specific risks to young girls whose bodies are not fully developed. “The risk to their lives is simply greater. This means that all options regarding the pregnancy, including safe abortion services, must be made available.”
Just recently, a Lagos-based lawyer (name withheld) was yesterday caught fondling a nine-year-old girl’s breasts and private part in the premises of Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos. In the same vein, a 28-year-old man, Azeez Abdullahi, was remanded in prison by a chief magistrates’ court for allegedly raping his 12-year-old sister-in-law.
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