: The law that criminalises sex between young people in India #IndiaNEWS In 2018, Padma was sixteen, and doing fairly well as a high school student in Bengaluru. One day, she had a stomach ache that

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The law that criminalises sex between young people in India #IndiaNEWS
In 2018, Padma was sixteen, and doing fairly well as a high school student in Bengaluru. One day, she had a stomach ache that grew progressively worse in the middle of a class. School authorities asked her mother, Nirmala, to come by and take her to the doctor.Nirmala, a single parent from a lower middle-class background, reached the school and rushed her daughter to a government hospital. While they waited for the doctor, Padma went to the toilet.A few minutes later, there was a wailing from inside the cubicle. When Nirmala pushed open the door, she saw an infant between Padma’s legs. The umbilical cord still connected the mother and child. This new life marked the abrupt end of Padma’s carefree school days. Padma said she did not know she was pregnant. Physically, she hadn’t shown any signs at all. It just looked like she had put on a little weight. But within her tender teenaged body, barely used to menstruation, she had carried a child into the third trimester.After the child was born, Padma came clean to her mother. She had had consensual sexual intercourse in a one-night exploration with a classmate. It hadn’t meant anything to her.A social worker familiar with Padma’s case, who...Read more

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