Los Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan regional police) have arrested a 17-year-old lad in Puicerda (Gerona) as the suspected father behind a 10-year old’s pregnancy.

The child was taken to a medical centre where she had an examination and where the pregnancy was confirmed with the gestation beginning at the beginning of the year.

The suspected father, himself legally a minor, will appear before a minors’s magistrate.

(News: Puicerda, Gerona, Cataluña)