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LINA MEDINA
FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOTHER
PREFERS DOLL '
Lina Medina, the five-year-old
mother, thrust away her week-old
son in hospital at Lima, Peru, oti
May 20, and whined: "Take that
thing away. I want my doll." Lina's
tattered rag doll was placed in her
little arms to be kissed and fondled.
Her baby was put in his crib at her
bedside.
Doctors attending history's young-
est mother says she is too young to
possess mother love, and that it will
be at least another six years before
she takes pride in her son.
Lina's parents have been inundat-
ed with offers from American pro-
moters who want to show their dau-
ghter and her baby to the public.
"One man offers £300 a week,"
said a hospital official to the Sunday
Pictorial. "'But we're hoping the
Peruvian Government will make
Lina its ward to prevent exploita-
tion, which would be fiendish, even
if it made her a millionairess."
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