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- Dafne\u2019s baby was born on January 27 in Zapopan, Mexico<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n
- Doctors who delivered the baby now claim that the well developed girl seems far older biologically than nine-years-old<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n
- Authorities investigating her real age and why her parents would possibly lie about it as it sparked huge child abuse investigation<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n
- Legal age of consent in Mexico is 14<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
By\u00a0DANIEL BATES IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO<\/p>\n
\nMexican state officials confirmed that the girl who gave birth to a child two weeks ago is 12 or 13 years old and not 9-years-old like her mother previously claimed.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe officials also confirmed that her 44-year-old stepfather is the father of the child and not her teenage boyfriend.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nMailOnline was in Guadalajara last week and was the first to reveal neighbor\u2019s suspicions that the girl, identified only as Dafne, was older than her mother initially said.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nMultiple sources told MailOnline that it was \u2018highly likely\u2019 that Dafne was not the age her mother claimed she was when she went into hospital with her daughter in labour.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nNow government officials have used DNA tests to confirm the identity of the baby\u2019s father after she originally told hospital workers that her 17-year-old boyfriend had impregnated her.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nState prosecutors reportedly did an anthropological study of the girl, which was not described in detail, which helped them to conclude that she is between 12 and 13 years old.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nMultiple sources told MailOnline that it was \u2018highly likely\u2019 that Dafne was not the age her mother claimed she was when she went into hospital with her daughter in labour.<\/span><\/p>\n
One explanation for the ongoing saga is that her mother \u2013 who MailOnline is not naming to protect Dafne\u2019s privacy \u2013 may have been trying to get her into school for the first time as she had not gone until now.<\/span><\/p>\n
Another more sinister reason could have been if, as has been claimed by neighbours, the mother is a prostitute who is trying to turn Dafne into a sex worker too, a nine-year-old could command a higher fee from clients than a teenager.<\/span><\/p>\n
Although Dafne has a birth certificate, the circumstances under which it was obtained are unclear.<\/p>\n
It only emerged a year and two months ago when she tried to go to school for the first time and was told she needed it.<\/span><\/p>\n
Neighbours have described Dafne as \u2018kind and very sweet\u2019 and said she looked much older than nine.<\/span><\/p>\n
A woman who lives next door, in her early 20s, said that Dafne was tall for her age, appeared well developed, with a light complexion and long blonde hair which goes past her shoulders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Another twist would be that if Dafne\u2019s real age is 15 or higher then her boyfriend sleeping with her would not even be a crime.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\nDisappeared: The stepfather, left, and the mother, right, have not been seen for two days. They are pictured with another relative and his child\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is only an offence under Mexican law to sleep with somebody aged 14 or younger.<\/span><\/p>\n
The birth certificate, issued on November 17, 2011, shows that Dafne was born on Monday March 6 2003, which makes her nine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
She would have been the same age when she fell pregnant.<\/p>\n
On the birth certificate the stepfather is also named as the father.<\/p>\n
The birth certificate was issued by the town hall in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan De Los Membrillos, where Dafne and her family have been living for six years.<\/p>\n
Dr Sergio Ramon Quintero Gonzalez, the district president, told MailOnline that Dafne\u2019s mother was not from his area.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018The first contact we had with this family was when they came in asking for the birth certificate.<\/p>\n
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Doubts: Dafne\u2019s birth certificate is under scrutiny as it was only issued in 2011\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were interviewed and I only saw them briefly when they came in to be interviewed.<\/p>\n
\u2018We issued the document to support the child going to school, but she didn\u2019t go to school.\u00a0We helped them but they didn\u2019t do anything with it.<\/p>\n
\u2018A lot of people here are concerned this has happened and hoped it would happen somewhere else.\u2019<\/p>\n
Jose Ramirez, media coordinator for the Jarisci prosecutor\u2019s office, said: \u2018We are going back through the archives to try and find out exactly when she was born.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2018She is not originally from here so we are having to do a thorough search.\u00a0<\/span>The girl will be given a medical examination to see exactly how old she is.\u00a0<\/span>It is highly likely that the girl is older than nine years old.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
Mr Ramirez added that as a matter of routine, all of the stepfather\u2019s male relatives were being given a DNA test to eliminate them from the investigation and make sure they are not the father.<\/span><\/p>\n
Preliminary results will come back in 72 hours, although the full tests will not be known for two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n
Lina Ginzalez Corona, head spokesman for the Jarisco Prosecutor\u2019s office, told MailOnline that so far there had been no arrests and no charges filed.\u00a0He said: \u2018The girl is still insisting that it is her boyfriend who got her pregnant.\u00a0The problem is that we don\u2019t know where the guy is so we are looking for him.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Government interaction: Doctor Enrique Rabago Solorio answered questions following the claims made by the girl\u2019s mother, which have since been revoked by state officials\n<\/div>\n![\"Rumours:](\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1835\/2013\/02\/article-0-17696339000005DC-68_634x470.jpg\")
Rumours: Neighbours on the street where they live have made various claims about the family \u2013 from the stepfather abusing Dafne to the mother working as a prostitute\n<\/div>\n\u2018When we find him we will see what he really did.\u00a0<\/span>This is an active investigation and we are pursuing it.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
He added that if it turns out the boyfriend did make Dafne pregnant and she was under age then he could be jailed for up to seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n
Dr Quintero Gonzalez added that there were now serious questions over whether or not Dafne\u2019s boyfriend \u2013 originally believed to be the father of the child \u2013 even exists.<\/span><\/p>\n
He said: \u2018Dafne\u2019s mother said that the boyfriend is from the neighborhood but nobody has heard of him.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2018We have no name and nobody knew he was her boyfriend.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
Dafne\u2019s neighbours had similar suspicions. One told MailOnline: \u2018We never saw any boyfriend at their house.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
If it turned out to be her stepfather as some have claimed, he would be tried as an adult and could be put away for between 12 and 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n
Dafne\u2019s baby was born by C-section on January 27 in Zoquipan Hospital, in Zapopan, Mexico\u2019s western Jalisco state weighting 5.95lbs.<\/span><\/p>\n
Both girls are doing fine and in a healthy condition.\u00a0According to Dafne\u2019s mother the girl was eight at the time she got pregnant but she didn\u2019t realize she was expecting until she was seven months gone.<\/span><\/p>\n
The mother \u2013 who can\u2019t read or write \u2013 supposedly didn\u2019t even think that it was a crime that somebody so young having sex could be a criminal offense until she turned up at the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Well developed: Doctors at the hospital outside Guadalajara have cast doubt on her real age because of her biological characteristics\n<\/div>\nIt now appears the Dafne has not been sterilized as earlier reports suggested but has been surgically fitted with an implant that will stop her getting pregnant.<\/p>\n
The device can be removed by a surgeon and in theory she can have another baby.<\/span><\/p>\n
Dafne\u2019s mother has reported the Zoquipan Hospital to the local human rights commission because she claimed she did not approve the procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n
But in a press conference health commissioner Munoz Serrano said that he had a note in which she gave her written permission.<\/span><\/p>\n
Dafne, her mother, her stepfather \u2013 and her newborn baby girl \u2013 left their 7ft by 25ft breeze block home in the run down suburb of Colonial los Olivos in a taxi on Wednesday night hours before police and the local mayor showed up to speak with them.<\/span><\/p>\n
Lurid claims have since been made against the step father including that has abused one of his own daughters and used to beat Dafne and share a bath with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few weeks ago I did a blog about a 9 year old who gave birth to a baby in mexico.The facts of that story has change so wanted to give a update on that post. Source~Mail Online \u2018Nine-year-old\u2019 Mexican girl who gave birth IS really aged 12 and the baby\u2019s father is her STEPFATHER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1851,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empower-network","tag-9-year-old-gives-birth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/empowerusone24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Doctors who delivered the baby now claim that the well developed girl seems far older biologically than nine-years-old<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n