10 Year-Old Girl’s Pregnancy Perplexes Mum

This is too much for me to take, says mother of the 10-year-old girl of Ndola’s Kaloko area who has been forced out of school after discovering that she is pregnant.
In an interview in Kaloko on Wednesday, the girl’s mother said she was now a laughing stock in the community because her daughter was pregnant at a tender age.
“Which parent would be happy that their child is pregnant at 10 years for that matter? I am disappointed and I don’t know what to do. This child developed breasts when she was three years and at the age of seven, she became of age. I had no idea that she was pregnant until last month when my neighbours noticed some changes in her body and she was always sick. One of them took her to the hospital and she was told that the child was expecting,” she said.
She said she could not believe her ears when she learnt that her daughter was pregnant because she was too young to be a mother and that the community would laugh at her.
“I don’t know what to do. This child is too small to have another child. The bad thing is that the pregnancy is too advanced. She is over five months. I don’t know if she is able to deliver well. This is too much for me to take as a mother. Help me, please,” she said.
And the girl said she did not know who impregnated her but that she would know the person if she saw him.
When probed more on the matter, the girl stopped talking.