here's the old news, taken from the net.
9 year old Singapore girl pregnant
A primary school girl in Singapore aged 9, experimented with sex
with a 14 years old schoolboy at home when her parents were away at
work and got herself pregnant. This makes her the youngest girl in
Singapore to get pregnant and again highlights the concern of teen
pregnancy. From AsiaOne:
Ministry of Health figures for 2001 to 2005 show an average of
around 1,500 teen abortions every year. In 2005, the exact figure
was 1,279 and in 2004, the number was 1,341.
Nearly all the teens who aborted their babies in 2005 were between
15 and 19 years old and unmarried. Slightly more than half were
Chinese and a third were Malay.
The figures go to the heart of a controversy over the issue of how
early children should be exposed to sex education in schools.
Ms Jebal cited the example of the pregnant nine-year-old during a
youth forum to counter the complaints of one participant, who felt
her sister in Primary 4 was too young to start learning about
sex...
Recounting the tense one-hour discussion she had with the family to
The Straits Times, Ms Jebal said: 'Her parents taught her how to
use a sanitary napkin, but didn't educate her about menstruation or
sex.
'They felt she was too young to know at her age. There is no such
thing as being too young to know,' said Ms Jebal.
Ms Tan Bee Joo of the Singapore Children's Society cited several
areas of concern, including lack of adult supervision over the use
of the Internet, where teens can easily access pornographic sites
and 'meet' strangers online.
