Authorities are investigating after an 11-year-old girl is believed to have become the youngest-ever to give birth in the UK with her family not aware of the pregnancy, say reports.
The child, who was 10 when she became pregnant, gave birth earlier this month and both mother and baby are healthy.
Now social services are investigating the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy and speaking to her family who were unaware she was pregnant, reports the Mirror.
A source told The Sun: "It has come as a big shock. She’s now being surrounded by expert help. The main thing is that she and the baby are OK.
“There are questions around why people did not know. That is very worrying.”
The previous youngest mother in the UK is said to be a 12-year-old who gave birth in 2006..
The youngest-ever parents was a father aged 13 and mother, aged 12, when they had a child in 2014.
There was a reported case in 2017 of another girl in the UK giving birth aged 11 but no further details emerged.
The youngest mum in the world was a Peruvian girl called Lina Media who was only five years and seven months old when she gave birth in May, 1939, to a boy called Gerardo.
Her family thought she had a tumour but when she was taken to hospital, she was found to be seven months pregnant. Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse but released due to lack of evidence.
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