A video (here, here, here, and here) is circulating on social media with the claim that it shows a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who has become pregnant. The clip has gone viral with captions claiming that the girl seen in the video got married to a 60-year-old Muslim man in Pakistan and became pregnant at the age of 12. The viral video features a little girl lying in a hospital bed with a newborn baby lying on her. We will fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Video shows a 12-year-old Pakistani girl who gave birth to a child after marrying a 60-year-old man.
Fact: The video was originally shared on TikTok by a Vietnamese woman named Bảo Ngọc, who clarified that the child in the video is her daughter, not the mother of the baby. The clip shows her two premature babies, and the older child in the video is the babies’ sister, not her mother. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the claim, we reverse image search on the internet using a few key frames of the viral video. This search led us to a TikTok post from August 2024 containing the same video.
It was uploaded by Bảo Ngọc, who describes herself in her profile as “a mother of two premature babies weighing 700g and 900g.” The caption of the video in Vietnamese translates to ‘Baby sister 700g cuddle baby 900g. 2 mother’s lovely angels 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 now grow up and understand the story with her mother very well #@HùngThỏ_Long An#xuhuongtiktok#EmBéCute.’ This indicates that the little girl and the newborn seen in the video are the children of the woman who posted this video on TikTok. This clearly contradicts the viral claim.
Soon after the clip went viral with misleading captions, she posted another video explaining the confusion on 11 August 2024. We ran this video through Google’s Notebook LLM and got the English transcription of her speech.
In her clarification, she said that her two babies are sisters and that the little girl appearing in the clip is her 4-year-old daughter, weighing only 12 kilograms. She stressed that it is impossible for such a young and small child to give birth and pointed out that if this were true, it would have been reported in world news. The viral version detached the video from its original context and circulated it with false captions in multiple countries, including Pakistan.
Bảo Ngọc uploads many videos of both her children on TikTok. One of the videos even has a Vietnamese caption, which translates to ‘2 sisters love each other.’ Further, Factly reached out to Bảo Ngọc for her comment on the current claims, and this article will be updated accordingly once she responds.
To sum up, the viral video does not show a 12-year-old Pakistani girl who became pregnant. It depicts a Vietnamese woman’s premature baby with her elder daughter (who is also a premature baby).
