Critics Slam Pregnant Teen with Zika After She Creates GoFundMe for New Baby's Care

DANBURY, CT — A Danbury 17-year-old who has been diagnosed with the Zika virus has created a fundraising page to help with her medical costs and is getting severe criticism for it.

Patch reached out to Sara Mujica last week who told us that she got Zika when she went got bitten by a mosquito while in Honduras last February. Upon returning to the U.S. from Honduras, she went to Danbury Hospital where she was diagnosed after getting a fever and a rash.

Mujica is now 12 weeks pregnant. She and her fiancée, Victor Cruz, 19, have decided to keep the baby and are trying to raise funds for the baby's health care, however cyber critics' attacks have been running rampant on her GoFundMe page.

Lilith Jade said: "You're being selfish and opportunistic. You should abort the fetus before it becomes another burden on society. Also if you're fine with premarital sex then you can't use religion as an excuse not to abort."

Beth O'Connor: "Young lady, please stop with the selective Catholicism."

Diane Pressly: "You are a selfish attention whore. Shame on you. If you were a real mom and loved your child at all, you wouldn't put an innocent life through what's ahead. Begging people for money to pay for your poor choices just makes a bad situation worse. So sad."

Meagan Byrne Elliott: "You are a ridiculously selfish person. You are making horrible decisions and now you want other people to fund it! How dare you! Make the right choice and give the baby up for adoption!"

Mujica told Patch via Facebook that it is difficult what she has been going through being so young and pregnant and then to get this diagnosis on top of it.

"Being young and pregnant is one thing, but now I am.... going through the worst time ever with the news about me having Zika. I have decided to keep my baby, because it's what God has given to me and I am taking full responsibility of my actions," she wrote on her page.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health authorities in Brazil have observed an increase in Guillain-Barré syndrome which coincided with Zika virus infections in the general public. They have also seen an increase in babies born with microcephaly, a rare neurological condition in which an infant's head is significantly smaller than the heads of other children of the same age.

The WHO said, "Substantial new research has strengthened the association between Zika infection and the occurrence of fetal malformations and neurological disorders. However, more investigation is needed to better understand the relationship. Other potential causes are also being investigated."

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Photo: Sara Mujica Facebook