... She led by the hand a shy little girl, named Lina, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen...
... Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Gerardo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little girl had an abdominal tumor, Doc examined her.... Bangggggggggg...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... Doc received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant...
... Doc took her to Lima, the capital of Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Lina was in fact pregnant..!!!
... A month and a half later, on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis...
... The surgery was performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colretta providing anaesthesia. Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel to La Presse Medicale...
... Her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age, and that she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation...
... Her son weighed 2.7 kg at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor...
... Gerardo (named for the attending doctor) lived to think that his mother was his sister until he was 10 when he raised the question after being teased by other children at school. He lived to the age of 40, when he died of a bone marrow disease that was completely unrelated to the early pregnancy...
... When asked who the father was, Lina didn't give an answer...
... Many believed her father had molested her and got her pregnant...!!!! Would be a barbaric act if so...!!!! He was arrested but released later because of lack of evidence...
... Lina herself went on to marry and had a second child a full 33 years later, producing another healthy baby boy...
... Extreme degrees of precocious puberty in children under 5 are highly uncommon but not unheard of...
Still................ This one remains one of its own kind......!!!!!!
