A 13 year old rape victim identified as Francisca Lopez Perez, from the town of Momostenango, has reportedly been delivered of triplets after being assaulted by a street sweet seller whom she cannot identify.
According to the new nursing mother, she did not even realize she was pregnant until her stomach began to swell.
It was gathered that the triplets each weighed only about 2.2 lbs (1 kg) and the two oldest were rushed to the emergency ward of a local hospital where they later died.
Francisca is forced to struggle in order to take care of herself and her surviving baby amidst extreme poverty, living with her mother and seven brothers in a house made of boards.
Sadly, she also has to constantly take the baby boy to hospital as he is so small that he regularly needs oxygen. The case of Lopez Perez was highlighted by the Observatory on Sexual and Reproductive Health of Guatemala (Osar).
According to Oscar, it was only one of 2,102 pregnancies involving girls, aged between 10 and 14, between January and July this year in the country.
And another 59,584 teenage girls, aged 15 to 19, became pregnant over the same period.