13-year-old becomes mom

A 13-year-old dalit girl has given birth to a baby girl at the District Hospital, Tamghas on Saturday A 13-year-old dalit girl has given birth to a baby girl at the District Hospital, Tamghas on Saturday.

Nirmala Nepali, a sixth grader at the Panchayan Higher Secondary School, said she had consensual sex with a brahmin boy studying in the ninth grade in the same school with an understanding of inter-caste marriage in the future.She gave birth to a daughter after being admitted at the hospital in the morning. The hospital said both the mother and the daughter are in good health.

The new mother said she was in love with son of Tamlal Pandey -- Ramchandra, 18 -- of Dhurkot Bastu-3 and entered into physical relationship with understanding of getting into wedlock.

Her teacher had first known about her pregnancy and informed her mother. "I knew only after the teachers came to our home and told me," Nirmala´s mother Sumitra said. A test done in Sandhikharka, Arghakhanchi in May had confirmed her pregnancy. "The family of the boy tried to buy us into going for abortion but we refused," Sumitra added.

The boy has been absconding since May but his family had promised to accept Nirmala as daughter-in-law. But Dhurkot Police Post said the whole family has left the village locking their house since Friday.

Chief District Officer (CDO) Parshuram Aryal said the new mother will be helped by collecting financial assistance from various organizations. news source: www.myrepublica.com