Lina Medina

 There was much interest in the case. The San Antonio Light newspaper in Texas published in its July 16, 1939 edition that the Peruvian obstetrician and midwife association requested that she be admitted to a national maternity clinic and reported in the Peruvian newspaper La Cronica that an American film studio sent a representative "with authority to offer $5,000 to benefit the minor" in return for filming rights. However "we know that the offer was rejected". The article noted that Lozada made films about Medina to serve as scientific evidence as well as presented them during a presentation in Peru's National Academy of Medicine. Some of the films had been lost in a flood while the girl was visiting her hometown. However, enough survived to "inspire the skilled savants". Six weeks later, Medina gave way to a boy via caesarean. She was 5 yearsold, seven months and 21 days old. She was the youngest person ever to give birth. The birth by caesarean was triggered due to her pelvis's small size. The operation was carried out by Dr Busalleu and Lozada, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. The doctors discovered she had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty. Dr. Edmundo Escomel reported her case in the medical journal La Presse Medicale, including that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age contrary to earlier reports that she had had regular periods since the age of 3.