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发表于 2009-2-17 09:29 · 印度
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13-year-old dad has rivals to parental claim
13-year-old dad has rivals to parental claim
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The baby-faced boy who has sparked dismay by becoming a parent aged just 13 may not be the father after all, it's emerged.
Alfie Patten's claim is being challenged by two other teenagers, who both say they slept with 15-year-old mother Chantelle Steadman.
'My friends all tell me that the baby has my eyes, even my mum thinks so,' Richard Goodsell, 16, told a newspaper. 'Even Chantelle's mum asked me if I was the father.'
The trainee chef, who said he had Chantelle's parents' consent to sleep with her at her home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, wants a DNA test.
Meanwhile, Tyler Barker, 14, also claims he could have fathered Maisie, who was born last week at Eastbourne District General Hospital.
After the birth, Alfie said he planned to stand by Chantelle but admitted he had no idea how to support them. The case has prompted politicians to brand it another case of 'broken Britain'.
It highlighted the 'complete collapse in some parts of society of any sense of what's right and wrong', said former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith.
Children needed better education to gain aspirations and avoid poverty, said Tony Kerridge of sexual health charity Marie Stopes International.
But support came yesterday from the local Catholic priest.
'They didn't go off to have an abortion, so obviously they have got res璸ect for human life,' said Father Seamus Hester of St Gregory's in Eastbourne.
'Whatever their ages, I say well done for bringing the child into the world.' |
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