:salam2: From BBC news. Here it goes:
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Officials in the US state of Massachusetts are investigating how 17 teenage girls from the same school have become pregnant.
The number is four times as high as the year before at Gloucester High School.
There are reports that some of the girls - none of whom is older than 16 - entered into a pact to have their babies together.
The girls or their families have so far made no comment. Officials are also investigating the age of the fathers.
Some are believed to be in their twenties and could face the possibility of being charged with having sex with minors.
Disturbing
When students at Gloucester High School broke up for the summer, officials, parents and the whole community had to face up to a shocking statistic.
Seventeen teenage pupils had walked out of the school gates pregnant.
More disturbing is that some of the schools own staff believe that this was no accident.
Local officials say that nearly half of the girls had entered into a bizarre pact to have their babies together.
The school principle says that several students returned multiple times to take pregnancy tests and some appeared upset when they found out they were not pregnant.
The school - which has 1,200 students - carried out 150 pregnancy tests in the past year alone.
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Officials in the US state of Massachusetts are investigating how 17 teenage girls from the same school have become pregnant.
The number is four times as high as the year before at Gloucester High School.
There are reports that some of the girls - none of whom is older than 16 - entered into a pact to have their babies together.
The girls or their families have so far made no comment. Officials are also investigating the age of the fathers.
Some are believed to be in their twenties and could face the possibility of being charged with having sex with minors.
Disturbing
When students at Gloucester High School broke up for the summer, officials, parents and the whole community had to face up to a shocking statistic.
Seventeen teenage pupils had walked out of the school gates pregnant.
More disturbing is that some of the schools own staff believe that this was no accident.
Local officials say that nearly half of the girls had entered into a bizarre pact to have their babies together.
The school principle says that several students returned multiple times to take pregnancy tests and some appeared upset when they found out they were not pregnant.
The school - which has 1,200 students - carried out 150 pregnancy tests in the past year alone.
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