{"id":6075,"date":"2020-09-22T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2020-09-30T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:00:04","slug":"no-these-are-not-pictures-of-a-pregnant-nursing-girl-from-jos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/no-these-are-not-pictures-of-a-pregnant-nursing-girl-from-jos\/","title":{"rendered":"No, These Are Not Pictures of a Pregnant, Nursing Girl From Jos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The user <\/a>claimed<\/a> that the pictures are that of an 11-year-old girl impregnated in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.\u00a0The pictures, with the same claim, were also shared on Facebook and posted on different blogs including Naija Olofofo<\/a> and toktok9ja<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fact-check has shown that the claim is untrue. The girls are neither from Jos\u00a0 nor any other town in Nigeria. The pictures have been on the internet since 2017<\/a> with similar claims but in different countries and locations.\u00a0Using an online image comparison tool <\/a>\u00a0(online-image-comparison.com) revealed that the girl shown as pregnant in one picture is different from the other one shown carrying a baby<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The two pictures were uploaded to Twitter and generated more than one thousand reactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The user named brooda John with a username @Nigeriangod_ tweeted<\/a> that \u201cA 11yrs old girl gives birth to a baby in Jos😩🤦, all this pedophilic acts just have to stop\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A user with name Duke (@Duke_CN) replied<\/a> to the tweet saying \u201cThey will put a minor to death for blasphemy and turn around and endorse raping minors in the name of marriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make it make sense,\u201d referring to the Muslim dominated northern Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another user with the name Adeosun Adekunle (@brov_qhuns) added<\/a> that \u201cYou only need to imagine the level of human cruelty a lot of this (sic) things happen without anyone  reporting to the right people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VERIFICATION: Not the Same Girl <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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After comparing the two pictures, an online image comparison tool<\/a> has shown that the two girls are different. A closer look at the two pictures also confirmed that the two girls are entirely different; the pregnant girl is visibly shorter and darker than the girl carrying a wrapped baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures of the two girls have also been on the internet since 2017 with the same claim but about different locations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An online medium, Gist Lover, in November 2017 had claimed<\/a> that the girl \u201cwas pregnant by his (sic) brother-in-law, a criminal named Moussa Oule, aged 50 from gueckedou (sic)\u201d, a town in Southern Guinea, near the Sierra Leone border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture was also uploaded again on Facebook<\/a> with the name Nakaiba Islamic School Civic Education Department in December 2017, with the claim that the girl was impregnated by her stepbrother in Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The claim that the pictures  uploaded to social media are of the same girl from Jos in Plateau State is false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fact-check is produced per HumAngle<\/a><\/em><\/strong> partnership with the Dubawa 2020 Fellowship to facilitate the ethos of \u201ctruth\u201d in journalism and enhance media literacy in Nigeria <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two pictures of young girls in which one of them appears pregnant and the other is holding a baby above were merged and uploaded on Twitter recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[210,437,123],"tags":[1316,204,258,60,759,1428],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1132],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-facebook-checks","category-mainstream","tag-facebook-check","tag-fake-news","tag-jos","tag-nigeria","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnant-girl"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-1zZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1132,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"aliyu-dahiru","display_name":"Aliyu Dahiru","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6697bc146fd37a7454b44c98c24de772ae006fb254928abf7f3c470f6a72557?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F8F59D6B-4F98-4FE6-800B-3003E4E813E3.jpeg?fit=749%2C739&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}