11 yr old gives birth....on her wedding day

*Raph's Girl* · 11-23-2009, 01:02 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...r_wedding.html

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An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - after she went into labor at her wedding.

Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven, Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce girl.

"I'm not going to play with toys anymore - I have a new toy now," Kordeza told reporters as she showed off little Violeta.

Kordeza - who got pregnant two weeks after her 11th birthday - told the News of the World: "It feels strange...now I must grow up. I am not going back to school."

The baby's 19-year-old dad, Jeliazko, met Kordeza when he rescued her from bullies in the playground.

"I was walking past the school when I saw some boys mocking her and I told them to leave her alone," he said. "Then she arranged to meet me and asked me out on our first date.

"We didn't plan to have sex or a baby, although I fell in love with Kordeza the moment I saw her," Jeliazko said.

But within a week, Kordeza was pregnant - and Jeliazko was facing six years in jail for having sex with a minor. The age of consent in Bulgaria is 14.

"I thought she was 15," he said. "She didn't tell me she was 11. I was really scared."

"I didn't want to say in case he wouldn't fancy me," Kordeza confessed.

"I didn't know I was pregnant until my grandmother saw I had put on weight," she added. "I just thought I'd eaten too many burgers."

"It's normal for our girls to have babies young," said Kordeza's grandmother Dida, 55. "It's our tradition. But I didn't want it for my Kordeza - I felt she was too young."

The family planned a three-day Roma wedding so Kordeza and Jeliazko could be married before the baby arrived.

But Kordeza went into labor on the second day. "I had been having pain in the morning and a couple of hours into the wedding, it got worse."

She was rushed to hospital and gave birth 20 minutes later.

"It was quite easy but painful, too," she said. "I was very happy when I saw her. She has a nose like me and hair like Jeliazko."

Violeta's grandmothers will be her guardians, and Kordeza and her daughter will receive about $115 a month in state benefits.

Oh the stories to tell the grandkids. "I met your grandpa when he saved me from bullies...."

*Brodie* · 11-23-2009, 01:24 AM

"I'm not going to play with toys anymore - I have a new toy now,"

whaaaaaaaaa?

*Ecto Jedi* · 11-23-2009, 01:35 AM

Only two weeks after her eleventh birthday -- the girl was still practically ten. And a 19-year-old "falls in love" with her. And plants his vile little spawn a week after they meet.

I always thought Bulgaria was a scary enough place.

*Sewer Bull* · 11-23-2009, 02:16 AM

Not that such things happen only in Bulgaria, at least he didn't keep her in his basement.

*Mecha Cow* · 11-23-2009, 07:15 AM

Well, at least the child wasn't born out of wedlock. I mean, that would have been wrong.

*Voltron* · 11-23-2009, 09:51 AM

"I love grade school girls. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."

This is just ridiculous.

*ToTheNines* · 11-23-2009, 10:07 AM

I was gonna comment on my favorite quote from the article, but it wouldn't be fair to pick just one out of this gold mine.

*XERO* · 11-23-2009, 11:14 AM

Show and tell's gonna be the sh*t.

Type 97 Chi-ha · 11-23-2009, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Benvenuto

Show and tell's gonna be the sh*t.

Except that by the time most schoolchildren are 11 years old, they've stopped doing show and tell.

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Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

Well, at least the child wasn't born out of wedlock. I mean, that would have been wrong.

Well, yes. The child won't be an orphan if the mother dies.

*Spitfire* · 11-23-2009, 04:54 PM

I guess some cultures forget we don't live in the dark ages anymore and the life expectancy has surpassed 30.

*XERO* · 11-23-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Type 97 Chi-ha

Except that by the time most schoolchildren are 11 years old, they've stopped doing show and tell.

Ironic, since that's exactly what got her pregnant.

Jelly Bean · 11-25-2009, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Spitfire

I guess some cultures forget we don't live in the dark ages anymore and the life expectancy has surpassed 30.

I know right. it's things like this I have trouble being open minded about with other cultures.

BoggleKng · 11-25-2009, 11:03 AM

To each, their own.. But granted this happens a lot in other countries, we just dont hear about...

I wish the couple good luck.. and a smack up side the head..

What is a 19 yo doing hanging out near a grade school anyways?

They just make themselves sound stupid..

"Oh, it's a tradition to rape a minor..."

*Storm Wolf* · 12-07-2009, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Spitfire

I guess some cultures forget we don't live in the dark ages anymore and the life expectancy has surpassed 30.

I know, right?

I mean....there are so many things wrong with what the people are saying here.

Tradition? What? To not have a childhood? What a lovely tradition that is....

Lynn · 12-07-2009, 10:34 AM

Her young life has just been thrown away. Instead of hanging out with friends she'll be changing and feeding the child.

Type 97 Chi-ha · 12-07-2009, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

I know right. it's things like this I have trouble being open minded about with other cultures.

I don't think this is necessarily acceptable in Romanian culture either (which had been under Communist rule during the Cold War, and therefore would have had a repressive social culture.) The marriage was simply making the best of a bad situation.

But in Iran, and probably in other cultures in the region, the youngest age to marry is 13, though with parental consent a girl may marry at 9. So yes, other cultures do have their very bad aspects too.

*Storm Wolf* · 12-07-2009, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Type 97 Chi-ha

But in Iran, and probably in other cultures in the region, the youngest age to marry is 13, though with parental consent a girl may marry at 9. So yes, other cultures do have their very bad aspects too.

I say this (at the risk of sounding like a...jerk) but Iran/Iraq has to start young otherwise there would be no population.

There so busy killing thier own people they have to have children having babies to keep up....

*BubblyShell22* · 12-08-2009, 10:01 AM

It's disturbing that a nineteen-year-old is now the father of an eleven-year-old's child. I hope he has a stable job because you know the eleven-year-old is too young to work.

*Sewer Bull* · 12-08-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

It's disturbing that a nineteen-year-old is now the father of an eleven-year-old's child. I hope he has a stable job because you know the eleven-year-old is too young to work.

He's in prison now for that, so there.

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Originally Posted by Storm Wolf

I say this (at the risk of sounding like a...jerk) but Iran/Iraq has to start young otherwise there would be no population.

There so busy killing thier own people they have to have children having babies to keep up....

I'm trying to find any sense in this statement, but I failed to.

*Samhain* · 12-20-2009, 03:44 PM

Thats just nasty. Such a shame.

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