Lina Medina became the youngest known mother in medical history in 1939. Currently aged 85, she delivered a baby boy when she was 5 year 7 months and 21 days old. | The Times of India

Lina Medina is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to son Gerardo on 14th May 1939, aged five years, seven months, and 21 days. Based on the medical assessments of her pregnancy, she was less than five years old when she became pregnant, which was possible due to early puberty. Medina has never revealed the identity of the father nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Lina’s father was arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse but releas