Nine-year-old Chinese girl gives birth

The baby was delivered on January 27 at a hospital in Changchun, in the North Eastern Chinese province of Jilin, when the girl was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, according to a local newspaper.

The City Evening News reported that the girl and her child were both well, but that her parents have lodged a complaint to the police.

Under Chinese law, intercourse with a child under the age of 14 is statutory rape.

A nurse in the ward told the newspaper that the girl's family was from Songyuan, a nearby city of around three million people, and that she "looked very mature" but it was unclear how she had become pregnant.