This Clip Doesn't Show 12-Year-Old Pregnant Pakistani Girl, Viral Claim is False

This video is from Vietnam and does not show a minor girl married to an 60-year-old man in Pakistan.

A video has gone viral on social media, claiming to show a 12-year-old Pakistani girl who gave birth to a child.

It further alleged that the girl was married to a 60-year-old Muslim man in Pakistan and became pregnant at the age of 12.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false.

• The clip features a Vietnamese woman who has two pre-mature children. The older child is seen in the video.

• The woman regularly posts information about her children on social media.

What we found: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• It led us to the same video on short video streaming platform TikTok from 2024.

• A user from Vietnam named Bao Ngoc posted the clip stating, "Baby sister 700g cuddle baby 900g. mother's lovely angels now grow up and understand the story with her mother very well." (sic.)

• We scrolled down to check the comments on the TikTok and found that a user commented that the child in the video was the elder sister and was holding her baby sibling.

• We checked Bao Ngoc profile where she mentioned that she was a mother of two premature babies weighing 700g and 900g.

• She also stated that her account shared knowledge about taking care of premature babies.

• Social media users have shared this video with a false communal claim that an old Muslim man was married to a minor girl, who gave birth to a child.

Conclusion: The viral video is from Vietnam and shows a TikTok user's two premature children.

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