Parent defends 10-year-old mum

A ROMANIAN Gypsy woman whose 10-year-old daughter just gave birth in Spain says she’s delighted to have a new granddaughter and doesn’t understand why the birth has shocked anyone.

In comments published yesterday, her mother told reporters the baby’s father is a 13-year-old boy who is in Romania and is no longer with her daughter.

She said she didn’t understand the attention the case was generating because she and her daughter are Romanian Gypsies, or Roma, and their custom is to allow girls to marry young even though that’s against the law in Romania.