12-year-old girl accused of being pregnant, she really had massive tumor growing inside her belly

A 12-year-old girl with a growing stomach was taunted by her classmates for looking pregnant but it turned out the adolescent had a 19-pound tumor growing near her stomach.

Janet Roberts said middle schoolers at her daughter's school in Jacksonville, Florida, began gossiping over the summer that her daughter was expecting a baby, when the girl's stomach started to expand.

But after multiple denials and several negative pregnancy tests, doctors discovered the girl instead had a 19-pound benign tumor growing inside of her.

'I was in shock,' Roberts told the First Coast News on Thursday about hearing reports from officials at her daughter's school about the girl, who has not been named, looking pregnant this summer.

'To me it was a joke at first.'

The girl was bullied because of the gossip and the mother had the girl take a pregnancy test to make sure. The test came back negative.

But the girl's stomach continued to grow and again the mother had the girl take another pregnancy test.

'I tested her every two weeks and it was negative, then I said 'if you're not pregnant something is going on here.''

In August, the girl celebrated her 12th birthday and her expanding stomach made it appear that she was five months pregnant.

Roberts, the mother of four daughters, took the girl to the doctor and they discovered a massive tumor inhabiting the girl's body.

She was rushed to the Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville for emergency surgery to remove the growth.

'Because of her size, they had to drain two liter bottle of it before they could pull it out of her,' the mother explained. Though the tumor has been extracted, doctors fear it could reappear.