They were still kids when they were thrust into the public eye.
But what have happened to the youngest parents in Britain over the years?
Tressa Middleton, the youngest mother in Britain, gave birth at the age of twelve and is now expecting her fourth child, as we revealed this week.
The 29-year-old woman from Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, made national news when she shared a picture of an ultrasound of her unborn child on Facebook, 17 years after her first pregnancy.
“So guys, it’s another girl!!” she wrote in the post. It’s unbelievable that there are four girls. Darren, good luck.
As the expectant woman breaks the joyful news, we are reminded of Tressa’s tragic story and what transpired with the other youngest parents in Britain.
A terrible assault
When Tressa’s pregnancy was revealed when she was eleven years old, it was assumed that it was the result of an alcohol-related event.
Tressa, who gave birth just after completing elementary school, came from a chaotic home with an addicted mother.
The young mother’s child was taken from her custody and placed for adoption after she struggled with depression and alcohol and cigarette addictions for two years after giving birth.
Until 2009, when the young mother lost it and reported her older brother Jason for sexually assaulting her, the father’s identity was kept a secret.
In 2009, Jason, 34, was found guilty of sexually abusing the woman beginning when she was seven years old. He was given a four-year prison sentence. All of this was made possible by DNA evidence.
“Sometimes he blackmailed or bribed me to do it,” Tressa told the Daily Mail in 2011.
He would claim that he would tell his mother. He would give me smokes, drinks, and marijuana. Or he would intimidate me.
Since then, Tressa has fought to rebuild her life and kick her heroin addiction, which costs her £400 a day.
She is now expecting her third child with her partner, Darren Young.
The youngest mother in the United Kingdom
Tressa was Britain’s youngest mother for fifteen years. But according to The Sun, an 11-year-old was said to have given birth in 2021.
The girl, who wished to remain nameless for legal reasons, was s*****y assaulted when she was ten years old.
Social services investigated the incident at the time, and her family was not informed of the horrific attack.
“It has been quite unexpected,” a family friend told The Sun in 2021.
“Expert assistance is now around her. The most important thing is that she and the child are doing well.
A father with a baby’s face
When it was revealed that 13-year-old Alfie Patten would soon become a father, the story went global.
Even David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, shared his opinions about the 2009 case, which claimed that the father had fathered a kid before he was old enough to purchase party poppers.
“I just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children,” the Tory leader said at the time.
During a sleepover in Lower Dicker, East Sussex, when he was twelve, Alfie had sex with his then-girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, who was fifteen at the time, and thought he had gotten her pregnant.
But a DNA test six weeks after Maisie’s birth showed he wasn’t her biological father. Later, it was revealed that 14-year-old Tyler Barker was the child’s real father.
“I was devastated,” Alfie told The Sun in 2014.It was simply too much to process. I hardly left my room and wept for days.
To make matters worst, Chantelle and her family left as soon as they discovered I wasn’t the father, so I never saw Maisie again.
“I couldn’t bring myself to do anything.” I was unable to attend classes. My world seemed to have ended.
Alfie was unemployed, battling alcoholism, and dealing with legal troubles by 2019.
He was convicted of criminal damage after crashing cars while serving a suspended sentence for shoplifting, theft, and possession of an imitation handgun.
According to the Daily Mail, he and his mother were kicked out of their home in March 2021 on suspicion of drug sales.
The youngest father in the UK
Before Alfie’s case, Sean Stewart was believed to be the youngest parent in Britain in 1998.
He fell pregnant with Emma Webster, his 15-year-old next-door neighbor, when he was eleven years old.
Sean was given a day off from school after his son Ben Louis was born a month after his twelfth birthday.
The two lived next door in the village of Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, when they first began dating.
It was rumored at the time that Sean would scale the roof to visit Emma.
“If I had known he was eleven, I would never have gone out with him,” she stated at the time in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph.
After that, Emma married someone else and moved into a home worth £200,000.
Before leaving Bedfordshire in his early adolescence, Sean attended his local school for a while.
According to the Daily Mail, he was imprisoned for seven months in the late 2000s on suspicion of stealing.
Since Emma planned to return to school once the baby was delivered, she said at the time, “I don’t know where Sean is or what he is doing.”
“I don’t think it helps Ben, so I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”
The youngest mother in the world was five.
Lina Medina was just five years old when she gave birth in Peru eighty-two years ago.
The youngest mother in history is Lina Medina, a Peruvian who gave birth in 1939 when she was just five years old.
Medina, 89, had “precocious puberty,” a condition that causes puberty to begin earlier than normal. One is considered “precocious” if they are younger than eight.
The identity of the father has never been revealed.
Her father was arrested on incest accusations but eventually released due to a lack of evidence.
Legal action is unlikely to be taken against teenage couples of a similar age who engage in consensual sex in the UK when under the legal consent age of 16.
However, it is against the law to engage in any s****l behavior with minors younger than thirteen.
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