When the story of then 13-year-old Alfie Patten\u00a0went viral, then Prime Minister David Cameron stated, \u201cI just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children.\u201d\n

Even before reaching the legal age to buy party poppers, Alfie became the youngest ever father in Britain. It was later determined that another young man, slightly older than Alfie was the real father, and this incident ruined Alfie\u2019s life completely. Even today, he\u2019s facing plenty of issues, including alcohol abuse and problems with the law.\n

However, the story of Alfie and the girl who gave birth to his alleged daughter isn\u2019t the only one of youngsters becoming parents in Britain.\n
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Tressa Middleton, the youngest mother in Britain, who gave birth to her first daughter at the age of just twelve, recently announced she\u2019s expecting her fourth child.\n
The now 29-year-old mom shared the news of her pregnancy on the social media by posting a photo of the ultrasound. She welcomed her latest child 17 years after she made headlines for being the youngest mother Britain has ever seen.\n
\u201cSo guys, it\u2019s another girl!!\u201d she captioned her post. \u201cFour girls, I can\u2019t believe it. Good luck, Darren.\u201d\n
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Former Britain\u2019s youngest mum Tressa Middleton with her daughter in 2006\n\n
Tressa\u2019s story is a heartbreaking one. Her parents were alcohol and drug abusers and her childhood was a tough one, to say the least.\n
She fell pregnant at the age of 11 and gave birth at 12, shortly after finishing elementary school.\n
Following the birth of her daughter, the young mom battled depression and started using drugs and alcohol, which resulted in losing the custody of her girl. The baby was put up for adoption.\n
The father\u2019s identity was kept a secret until 2009, or three years after Tressa gave birth.\n
At one point, she broke down and confessed that her daughter was her brother\u2019s who s******y assaulted her from the time she was seven years old.\n
The 34-year-old Jason was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison in 2009.\n
Speaking to the\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0in 2011, Tressa confessed that\u00a0\u201csometimes he blackmailed or bribed me to do it.\n
\u201cHe\u2019d say he was going to tell Mum. He\u2019d give me things \u2013 joints, drink, cigarettes. Or he\u2019d threaten me.\u201d\n
Since then, Tressa has battled to put her life back on track and overcome her addictions, which cost her around \u00a3400 every day.\n
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Up until 2011, Tressa was considered to be the youngest mother in Britain. But then, the news of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth filled the headlines.\n
The girl\u2019s identity was kept a secret, but what is known, as per\u00a0The Sun,\u00a0that she was s******y assaulted and her family was unaware of that.\n
\u201cIt has come as a big shock,\u201d\u00a0a family friend said in 2021 to\u00a0The Sun.\n
\u201cShe\u2019s now being surrounded by expert help. The main thing is that she and the baby are OK.\u201d\n
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Prior to the case of Alfie, it was Sean Stewart who was thought to be the youngest father in Britain.\n
In 1998, Sean\u2019s next door neighbor, Emma Webster, 15, got pregnant with his child. At the time, Sean was 11 years old.\n
A month after turning twelve, Sean\u2019s son, Ben Louis, was born and Sean was granted a day off from school.\n
Sean and Emma were neighbors and according to her, he would climb to her rooftop to see her.\n
\u201cHe said he was 12, I\u2019d never have gone out with him if I\u2019d known he was 11,\u201d she told\u00a0The Sunday Telegraph\u00a0at the time.\n
Shortly after giving birth, Emma married someone else and moved to a \u00a3200,000 house, while Sean continued attending his local school before leaving Bedfordshire in his early adolescence.\n
According to\u00a0The Daily Mail,\u00a0in the early 2000s, he was incarcerated for seven months for stealing.\n
Speaking of him, Emma said at the time, \u201cI don\u2019t know where Sean is or what he is doing. I don\u2019t want to talk about it anymore because I don\u2019t think it helps Ben.\u201d\n
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No matter how unbelievable these stories sound, the one that is the most shocking of all is that of Lina Medina from Peru who gave birth at the age of just five. Today, Medina is 89 years old.\n
When she gave birth in 1939, she became the youngest mother in the history. Allegedly, she suffered from \u201cprecocious puberty,\u201d\u00a0a disorder that causes puberty to start earlier than usual.\n
At the time, it was believed that Medina\u2019s child was her father\u2019s but he was eventually freed of all charges because of insufficient evidence.\n
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Teenage couples of a comparable age who have consensual s*x in the UK and are under the legal consent age of 16 are unlikely to face legal action.\n
But all s****l activity with children under the age of 13 is illegal.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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