Kids With Kids: Where Are Britain’s Youngest Parents Now When they were thrust into the spotlight, they were kids. But what has happened to young parents in Britain in the intervening years? This week we revealed that Tressa Midl
When they were shot into the light, they were children. But what has happened to young parents in Britain in the intervening years?
This week we revealed that Tressa Middleton, Britain’s youngest mother, is expecting her fourth child, now twelve years old.
Former young UK mum Tressa Middleton A picture of her having an ultrasound with her daughter in 2006 posted on Facebook by the 29-year-old from Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, made headlines across the country during her pregnancy 17 years after the first
“So guys, it’s a new girl!!” he exclaimed—positions of the. Four girls, I don’t believe. Good luck, Darren.” We recount Tressa’s heartbreaking ordeal and other young parents in Britain as the expectant mother revealed her good news.
A terrible attack
When Tressa’s pregnancy at age 11 was made public, it was thought to be the result of an alcohol-related incident. Born from a violent home to a mother who struggled with addiction, Tressa soon graduated from elementary school. For two years after giving birth, the young woman battled depression, alcohol, and smoking, leading to her baby being taken from her custody and put up for adoption
The father’s identity was kept secret until 2009 when the young mother broke down and told authorities her older brother Jason had carried out a s******y attack against her 34-year-old Jason guilty of s****; . . . . **y abused the woman since she was seven years old, and was sentenced to four years in prison in 2009. All because of DNA evidence
Tressa told the Daily Mail in 2011: “Sometimes he would slap me or bribe me to do it”. “He would say he was going to tell mum. He would give me things – joints, drinks, and cigarettes. Or he was threatening me.”
Since then, Tressa has battled to get her life back together and overcome her heroin addiction, at a cost of £400 a day. She and her partner Darren Young are currently expecting their third child.
UK’s most recent youngest children
At fifteen, Tressa was the youngest mother in Britain. But in 2021, according to The Sun, an 11-year-old boy was believed to have given birth. The ten-year-old girl—who was not named for legal reasons—was s*****y attacked. Her family was unaware of the horrific attack and social services looked into the matter at the time.
“It came as a huge shock,” a 2021 family friend told The Sun. “Now he’s surrounded by special support. The main thing is that she and the baby are fine.”
The baby-faced father
When it was announced that 13-year-old Alfie Patten would become a father, word spread, then Prime Minister David Cameron also offered his views on the 2009 case, in which the father was alleged to have fathered a child before the legal age to buy party poppers the Tory leader said at the time: “Look I think about how disturbing it is that children are having children in Britain today.”
Twelve-year-old Alfie had sex with his then-girlfriend Chantel Steadman, then fifteen, while she was sleeping in Lower Dicker, East Sussex, believing she was pregnant but six weeks after Maisie was born, DNA tests revealed that he was not the father. The child’s biological father was later identified as 14-year-old Tyler Barker.
“I was devastated,” Alfie told The Sun in 2014. “It was too much to take in. I cried for days and hardly left my room “To make matters worse I never saw Maisie again because Chantel and her family I am not a father As soon as they heard this, they left. “I couldn’t face anything. I couldn’t go to school. I thought my world was over.”
In 2019, Alfie was unemployed, struggling with alcoholism and had legal issues. He was already serving a suspended sentence for shoplifting, theft and possession of an imitation firearm when he was involved in a car crash, which led to his conviction for criminal damage. He and his mother were evicted from their home in March 2021 on suspicion of drug dealing is.
A young father in the UK
Before the Alfie incident in 1998, Sean Stewart was thought to be the youngest father in Britain. When she became pregnant at 11, it was with her 15-year-old next-door neighbor, Emma Webster. Twelve months later, Sean’s son Ben Lewis was born, followed by a day off from school. When they started dating, the pair lived next door in the Bedfordshire village of Sharnbrook. They said then that Sean would climb onto the roof to check on Emma.
She described it to The Sunday Telegraph at the time: “He said he was 12 and if I had known he was 11, I would never have gone out with him”. Emma then remarried and moved into a £200,000 house. Sean spent some time at his local school before leaving the Bedfordshire Shire in his early teens. He was jailed for seven months in 2000 on suspicion of theft, the daily reported. Emma then said, “I don’t know where Sean is or what he’s doing” because she wanted to go back to school when the baby was born. “I don’t want to talk about it anymore because I don’t think it helps Ben.”
The youngest mum in the world was five years old
When Lina Medina was born 82 years ago in Peru, she was only five years old. Lina Medina, a five-year-old Peruvian woman in 1939, was the youngest mother in history. Medina, 89, suffered from “precocious puberty,” a disorder in which puberty begins earlier than usual. Less than eight years is considered “early”.
The identity of the father is never publicly announced. Despite being jailed for incest, his father was later released due to overwhelming evidence. Underage couples of comparable age having consensual sex in the UK and below the consented legal age of 16 cannot face legal action but s****l activities all doing by children under 13 are illegal.