Parenting

A young girl born without a vagina came to doctors complaining of intermittent abdominal pain – which, in many ways, mimicked contractions. Further investigations by doctors revealed a foetus within her uterus – and that the woman’s pain were happening because she was in labour. The baby was immediately delivered via c-section.

Given the girl was born without a vagina, this ruled out intercourse as the method of conception. But precisely 278 days before, the girl had been admitted to hospital with stab wounds in her stomach. The wounds were the result of a knife fight between her, her jealous ex and her new partner.

It transpired that just before the knife fight had occurred, she had performed oral sex on her new partner. So when the surgery was done to repair her stomach wounds, it potentially washed any sperm that still existed around her abdominal cavity – allowing them to migrate towards and fertilise the ovum.

That was one wild ride...