11-year-old New Zealand boy said to have impregnated his friend’s 36-year-old mother

Agence France-Presse reports via GMA News Online that an 11-year-old New Zealand boy was reported by the New Zealand Herald on Saturday "to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend."

According to the report, "the woman and boy, whose names were not released, live in the main North Island district of Auckland." The New Zealand Herald said the boy had confessed "late last year" to his school's principal that he "he had been having sex with his friend’s mother" and "it needs to stop".

The paper added that government welfare officials have taken the baby and the now-12-year-old father into care. The case has prompted authorities to consider reviewing the definition of rape, as in this case the boy was clearly taken advantage of.

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