A 10-year-old rape victim who was not allowed by the Indian Supreme Court to abort the foetus has given birth to a baby girl.
The girl who gave birth through a Caesarean section is not aware that she has given birth.
She was also not aware that she was pregnant, as she was told that it was a big stone in her stomach that made it grow big.
The baby weighing 2.5kg (5.5lb) was delivered in Chandigarh at on Thursday.
Hospital official told journalists that both the mother and the newborn are doing fine.
The girl alleges she was raped several times in the past seven months by her uncle, who has been arrested.
Her pregnancy was discovered in mid-July when she complained of stomach ache and her parents took her to hospital.
A local court in Chandigarh turned down the abortion plea on the grounds that she was too far into her pregnancy after a doctors’ panel said that termination of the pregnancy would be “too risky”. Later, the Supreme Court also refused to allow an abortion for her on similar grounds, BBC reported.
As the baby has been born prematurely at 35 weeks, she has been placed in the neo-natal intensive care unit of the hospital where she will remain for the next few days.
The parents of the 10-year-old, who had said right from the start that they did not want to have anything to do with the baby, did not even look at the newborn.
The infant will be looked after by the child welfare committee until she is put up for adoption, an official said.
The 10-year-old is expected to remain in hospital for a week to 10 days.
