TigerLily
May 18th, 2009, 06:27 PM
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090518/tuk-alfie-13-not-father-of-baby-dba1618.html
Alfie, 13, not father of baby
Little Alfie Patten, reported to have become a parent at the age of 13, did not father a baby, it has been revealed.
n February, The Sun newspaper reported the teenager believed he had made Chantelle Stedman, 15, pregnant when he was aged just 12.
A DNA test has since shown this is not the case and it can now be reported that Tyler Barker, 15, who lives on the same estate as Chantelle in Eastbourne, is in fact the father of baby Maisie, who was born on February 9.
The result can be revealed after East Sussex County Council failed in an attempt to ban reports of the case.
A judgment, made last month by Mrs Justice Eleanor King, said Chantelle had been called a "slut" by four people she did not know. The teenager said "I was crying a lot every day" and feared that the insults would "go on forever".
Alfie was "extremely distressed" when he was told he was not the baby's father in March, the judgment revealed. At the time the story was published, Alfie, who lives with his mother Nicola, 43, in Eastbourne, said he "thought it would be good to have a baby".
The story renewed calls for better sex education in England, which has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in western Europe.
Alfie, 13, not father of baby
Little Alfie Patten, reported to have become a parent at the age of 13, did not father a baby, it has been revealed.
n February, The Sun newspaper reported the teenager believed he had made Chantelle Stedman, 15, pregnant when he was aged just 12.
A DNA test has since shown this is not the case and it can now be reported that Tyler Barker, 15, who lives on the same estate as Chantelle in Eastbourne, is in fact the father of baby Maisie, who was born on February 9.
The result can be revealed after East Sussex County Council failed in an attempt to ban reports of the case.
A judgment, made last month by Mrs Justice Eleanor King, said Chantelle had been called a "slut" by four people she did not know. The teenager said "I was crying a lot every day" and feared that the insults would "go on forever".
Alfie was "extremely distressed" when he was told he was not the baby's father in March, the judgment revealed. At the time the story was published, Alfie, who lives with his mother Nicola, 43, in Eastbourne, said he "thought it would be good to have a baby".
The story renewed calls for better sex education in England, which has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in western Europe.