A teenager repeatedly raped and abandoned upon being found pregnant has now delivered her child. Her baby boy was delivered in an ambulance after a nurse refused to assist in the procedure, Hindustan Times reported.

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The girl was raped repeatedly on the pretext of marriage by a fellow villager, who abandoned her when she became pregnant with his child.

The girl and her family fought in courts in Bareilly and finally in the Allahabad high court. Her hopes to abort the child ended when a local medical panel declined permission, stating the advanced state of pregnancy she was in.

The girl had first approached an additional chief judicial magistrate's court when her fetus was 26 weeks old. The law forbids abortion beyond a 20-week deadline, unless the mother's life is at risk.

She was taken to the Community health centre (CHC) in Shergarh after complaining of labour pains, and but the auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) refused to assist in the delivery after hearing of the rape case. She told the girl's family to take the girl to the district hospital. The family was even denied an ambulance, and were told transport the girl in an autorickshaw. The family arranged an ambulance - and it was in the ambulance that the girl gave birth.