12 year old girl gives birth while on school trip.

[Lemonhead]

A 12-YEAR-OLD Dutch girl gave birth while on a school trip, sparking a police search yesterday for the father of the child. The girl, from Groningen, 183km north-east of Amsterdam, complained of stomach pains on March 22, during a day out with classmates.
Teachers realised the girl was in labour and called an ambulance.
Ambulance officers rushed to the scene, and the 12-year-old delivered a healthy baby girl in a nearby building.
The young mother was then taken to the hospital but has refused to name the father.
Family members said that the schoolgirl's father previously sexually abused another older daughter and served two years in jail for the sex crime, according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
The girl was living with her father and brother after he won custody following a divorce from their mother, who was originally from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America.
The girl's stepsister, 30, told the newspaper, "I warned him. I am shocked about what happened."
Dutch police said in a statement yesterday: "The girl got pregnant when she was 11, which in itself means there has been a criminal offence. Article 244 of the Penal Code, sex with a minor under 12, is punishable. In addition, there are now [circumstances] reported by the Child Protection Board. Taking these two circumstances, the police is now investigating who the father [of this baby] is."
The girl was due to go into foster care once she was released from the hospital.

WTF? Is it happening more and more or is it just being recognised more? So wrong.

[Just*Ace]

Wow...
Why was she placed into the fathers care after he was found to have sexually assaulted the other daughter?!

[missie_mack]

Eek! The scary thing is that it is only punishable to have sex with a child UNDER 12, hence if she was 12 it would be ok
Poor baby girl

[Fuchsia!]

So many things is wrong with what is written above.

So its only a punishable crime for an under 12yr old? what about 12yrs- 16yrs!

What on earth is wrong with their legal system when they give custody of a little girl to a father that has been jailed for sexually abusing another daughter!

And now the poor girl gets thrown into the foster care system



Tragic all round!

[*babygirl*]

I wonder what would have happened to the baby if she hadn't had it in public

[Lemonhead]

Isnt it disgusting. Disgusting that she was placed in the care of an accused predator and disgusting that it was only *just* considered illegal. YUK! Poor girl I hope she has a chance of having a normal childhood in the care of some lovely people.

I wonder what would have happened to the baby if she hadn't had it in public

I thought this too! Im actually really glad she did have her in public.

[The Fox]

OMG what the hell is wrong with the world how could she have been put in the care of her father after he sexually abused his other child. A child sex offender should never ever be given custody of a child ever I don't care how rehabilitated they think they are.
I hope that the this girls father is not the father of this child

[nerdgirl99]

I wonder what the mother did to have the child placed in the father's care!

Such a sad sad story.

[waterlily]

Isnt it disgusting. Disgusting that she was placed in the care of an accused predator and disgusting that it was only *just* considered illegal. YUK! Poor girl I hope she has a chance of having a normal childhood in the care of some lovely people.



I thought this too! Im actually really glad she did have her in public.

I agree, there are SO many wrongs in that article poor little thing.

[waterlily]

I wonder what the mother did to have the child placed in the father's care!

Such a sad sad story.

She may not have done anything. They have very different laws to us! For one have sex with a minor under 12 not 16-17