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Rebecca Mann (instructed by A Local Authority legal department) for the 2 nd Respondent
      This is an application by a Health Board (�HB�) for declarations that a termination of pregnancy would be in AZ�s best interests and it would be in her best interests for tissue taken from the placenta to be used for the purposes of forensic testing in a criminal investigation.
      The first respondent is a child (�AZ�) who was born on 23 rd May 2012.� She is now aged 11.� She became pregnant after being raped by a 14-year-old she met on the internet when she was aged ten, on the 18th or 21st of May 2023. She was raped by another 14-year-old boy on the 11th of June 2023, but he did not make her pregnant.
      AZ is living at home with the third respondent, her mother and the fourth respondent, her father.� They both attended the hearing on 4 th September 2023.� The other party is the second respondent, a Local Authority (�LA�) which has safeguarding concerns about the care AZ is receiving at home from the mother and father. �AZ has a guardian who was present and represented at the hearing.
      The application was made on the 25 th August 2023. �It was listed urgently on 30 th August 2023.� The parents did not attend that hearing.� At the time, AZ wanted to continue with the pregnancy and was supported in that view by the mother.�
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