(Jamaica Gleaner) An 11-year-old girl was on Monday admitted to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital, reportedly pregnant for her 63-year-old grand uncle, who she lived with in Carlton Mountain, Claremont in St Ann.
Sitting at the hospital in tears yesterday, the child’s mother related to The Gleaner that on Friday her daughter came home complaining of a severe bellyache and headache.
“Me make her some ginger tea with cerassee and tell her to lie down. But whole weekend she a bawl fi har belly and she nah eat anything, so me decide to carry her to clinic Monday,” said the 31-year-old mother.
She said the doctor at the Claremont Clinic was concerned after examining the child and told the mother she needed to do a pregnancy test.
“Me ask har how she mean pregnancy test and she only 11 years old,” said the mother.
The test came back positive and the mother said she was told the child was three to four months pregnant. It was also revealed that the child had fresh vaginal scarring which indicated penetration within the last three days. She also had an infection.
The police were called in and after prompting, the child revealed that it was the common-law husband of her grand aunt who was responsible. Around 5 p.m. on Monday, the accused was arrested at his home.
“She tell the police and the doctor say it going on for a long time now, so me ask why she never tell me and she say him threaten her,” said the child’s father, who declared he was sickened after listening to his daughter describe in details of what was done to her.
“When she see him come to the station she start tremble,” added the father, who lives in Moneague.
The 11-year-old was taken to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital and admitted. However, the mother said she was told a second pregnancy test came back negative. The child was scheduled to be sedated for a procedure to be performed last night.
Her parents said they still cannot get her to eat.
The child, the second of three for her mother, had been living with her grandaunt and the accused since she was nine months old. Her mother, who was living in Kingston for a few years, moved back to Carlton Mountain in February.
“A them raise me so me trust them that much to raise me child,” said the still tearful mom.
“After everything happen, the only thing she [grand aunt] say to me is to ask me fi the $1,000 me owe har.”
