12-Year-Old Gives Birth. Now Faces Charges Of Being A Sex Offender For Life

Authorities in Perth, Australia are stuck with a confusing problem. Because having sex below the age of sixteen is illegal, authorities are trying to figure out if they should charge both an eleven-year-old girl and her equally-young lover had sexual intercourse and conceived a baby. The young girl did not know that she was pregnant until she gave birth to the baby inside her family home and was taken to the Peel Health Campus nearby.

While the health of the twelve-year-old mother and her baby is not in question, Perth authorities are still wringing their hands trying to figure out if she should be charged in her part of the underage sex act. Read the full article here ▶