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A ten-year-old Mexican girl delivered an infant by Caesarean section after a 31-week pregnancy, The Huffington Post reports.

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The mother was admitted to Hospital de la Mujer in the city of Puebla, just 60 miles southeast of Mexico City, on Oct. 22, after “suffering from seizures and other medical problems.”

Hospital director Rogelio Gonzalez told The Latin American Herald Tribune that the child is in the neonatal intensive care unit, recovering from pneumonia. The mother, who has since been released, has been breastfeeding the child.

“[She] comes every day with her mother to breastfeed her son every four hours and she is recovering very well from her surgery,” Gonzalez said.

The young girl, who is almost 11 years old, is reportedly from the San Francisco Totimehuacan community. According to Gonzalez, the state’s minimum age of consent is 12 and abortion is illegal unless the mother was the victim of a sexual assault. As a result, the Puebla state Attorney General’s Office has been notified of the birth and is investigating. The agency did not immediately reply to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.

Check out the rest of this bizarre story at The Huffington Post.

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