New Delhi: An 11-year-old girl refused to have an abortion after she found out being 13-weeks-old pregnant. As per the information, the girl was being sexually assualted by her stepfather from the age of six. The accused was committing the sin by threatening her with life and property.

When the police recieved the complaint, the accused father was arrested. However, he later got bail. Meanwhile, the victim wants to give birth to the unborn child. The whole matter is related to the country of Peru in the continent of South America.

The victim was sent to the shelter home

The victim is a primary school student in Iquitos, the capital of the Loreto region in the Amazon rainforest. He has been kept in the shelter home. In this shelter home, along with a four-month-old baby, three of his siblings have also been kept.

Mother said – want to see the daughter but not the child

The victim’s mother said, ‘I was scared because I was threatened that if I told anyone, I would be killed. Now whenever I talk about her, I shiver. It’s all like a nightmare.’

She said, ‘I want to see my daughter, but I don’t want to see that child because it has hurt my daughter.’ The mother said that the regional authority, the Loreto Special Protection Unit (UPE), did not provide any information about why her daughter wanted to have a child despite her request for an abortion.

The victim spoke in front of the medical board

At present, Peru’s Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (PROMSEX) has taken up the matter. The mother said that UPE referred the girl to the regional hospital in Loretto so that the board of directors could decide whether the girl could have an abortion.

But the hospital board decided that the victim would continue with the pregnancy. The hospital claims the 11-year-old girl told them she did not want to terminate the pregnancy.

He also said that rape cases do not come under the law relating to medical abortion. Medical abortion is done because the life of the mother is in danger.

Board will re-examine

PROMSEX urged the authorities to look into the matter again, to which the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations agreed that a new medical board would re-examine the matter.