RAPE VICTIM, 10, DENIED ABORTION, GIVES BIRTH

A 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion by India’s top court gave birth to a baby girl, a doctor told the Agence France-Presse news agency Thursday.

The girl, who was 35 weeks’ pregnant, gave birth by cesarean section to a premature baby weighing 4.8 pounds, doctor Dasari Harish told AFP from the northern city of Chandigarh. Harish said mother and baby were “doing fine,” and the infant was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported that the girl did not know she had given birth and that her parents were putting her child up for adoption. They told the girl the operation was to remove a stone in her stomach, the agency reported.