Children Facts

In 1939, a 5-year-old girl in Peru named Lina Medina gave birth via C-section. The father was never identified.

Walter Freeman toured the U.S. in his "lobotomobile," performing ice-pick lobotomies through the eye socket — sometimes on children as young as 4, at their parents' request.

Christopher Columbus wrote about the trafficking of Indigenous girls in his own letters. Girls as young as 9 were, in his words, in high demand. This is not interpretation — it's his handwriting.