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Self-claimed underage girls parade pregnancy online

(Global Times)    09:39, November 03, 2017

Videos of Chinese girls claimed to be underage and pregnant could still be found on a video sharing platform even as the site said it reported similar cases to the police earlier.

Netizens have reported spotting some self-claimed underage girls with videos of their protruding belly on Kuaishou, a popular social video sharing app in China, and most of them claimed to be unmarried students.

The real ages and identities of these girls, however, cannot be confirmed.

The Global Times reporter found on Thursday that the app does not require real-name registration.

One of the girls, who said she was 16 years old and just gave birth last week, wrote on her profile page that the baby's father was born in 1999. She posted about 40 videos of herself - from the time her pregnancy was confirmed, to prenatal appointments, to delivery time. In one video, the pregnant girl was wearing a school uniform, and it was viewed 12,000 times.

Kuaishou said on its Sina Weibo account on Monday that it has reported the cases to police and Chinese law does not encourage underage women to get pregnant, and sex with a female below the age of 14 is a criminal act.

The legal age for marrying in China is 22 for men and 20 for women.

An employee from the customer service department of Kuaishou said that they have cleared some videos of underage mothers while some were overlooked. Users can report cases to them.

Accounts of these pregnant girls could still be found on the site as of press time.

Meanwhile, netizens have blamed the site for allowing underage girls to post the videos, with one user noting that "It seems like [they think it's] normal and something they're proud of."

Zhang Xuemei, director of China Child, an NGO dedicated to teenagers' rights, said that China's commercial venues and platforms need to improve their management to safeguard the rights of the underage children.  

(For the latest China news, Please follow People's Daily on Twitter and Facebook)(Web editor: Liang Jun, Bianji)

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