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Where in the world are these parents who should be making certain their 10 year old daughters are not getting knocked up? Forty-seven 10 year olds in Belgium are on birth control. What good can come of that?

BRUSSELS – A ten-year-old girl from Charleroi gave birth to a baby last year. The father was 13.

“The pregnancy was a big surprise to the girl and her mother,” says doctor Robert Chef from Charleroi. “The child came to me with unexplained abdominal pain. She had also put on weight. Her mother had even put her on a diet for a while but that had little effect. When we examined her it turned out she was nine months pregnant. The child was carrying a full term baby.”