15-Year-Old Goes Shopping With Her Parents And Gives Birth In Mall's Toilet
The girl's mother found her holding the blood-soaked baby in her hands.
By Sadho Ram — 22 Nov 2017, 12:44 PM
It was supposed to be like any other outing the family had taken before, but the family's outing to a shopping mall in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday gave them the shock of their life
According to a report in The Star Online, parents of a 15-year-old girl had no idea that their daughter was pregnant.
They only found out after the girl, who had complained of abdominal pains and went to use the toilet inside the mall, gave birth to a child.
The girl's mother was the first to find out when she went to check on her after the 15-year-old was taking a long time to come out of the toilet. The mother was shocked to see her teenage daughter holding a newborn in her hands, The Star Online reported.
At the time of the incident, which happened at 4.30pm, the girl's father and her younger brother were still unaware
After the mother alerted her husband about what had happened that he came to know. They then rushed their daughter and her newborn baby to the hospital.
Following which, they reported the incident to the Penampang police.
The teenager and her newborn baby girl are warded at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The girl admitted to the police that she and her 17-year-old boyfriend had sex at her place in Penampang. Although, she apparently broke things off with him five months ago.
The Star Online reported Penampang police chief Supt Rosley Hobden saying that the police are trying to track down the boyfriend to assist with investigations.
Rosley added that the case would be classified as statutory rape.
