Child-Mom Not 10, Argue Neighbors

'Lies!' they say ... she's more like 13, or 14, or 15
By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 9, 2010 8:17 AM CST
Child-Mom Not 10, Argue Neighbors
The new baby may have been born to a bona fide teen.   (?Big D2112)

Somehow, "15-year-old gives birth to baby!" just doesn't have the same ring to it—but that may be closer to the truth, at least according to former neighbors of the supposedly 10-year-old girl who gave birth last week in Spain. The AP met with a group of them today outside the four-story Bucharest apartment building where the girl spent her early years, and they were not a happy bunch, calling the claims about her age "lies."

Several said they believed she was between 13 and 15 years old; another said he remembered when the girl's mother moved to Spain with her daughter in the 1990s in search of a better life. Click here for more.
(More childbirth stories.)

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