Boy aged 12 did not father baby
Boy aged 12 did not father baby
The story sparked calls for better sex education for Britain's young people
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Alfie Patten, the boy who was reported to have conceived a child when he was 12 years old, is not the baby's father, DNA tests have shown.
Alfie, now 13, from Eastbourne, in East Sussex, told a national newspaper in February that he believed he had made his 15-year-old girlfriend pregnant.
But the tests have established another boy from Eastbourne, who is 15, as the father of Chantelle Stedman's baby.
The results of the DNA tests have been made public following a judge's ruling.
The judgement also reveals that Alfie was "extremely distressed" about the results of the test.
Pictures of Alfie, holding the baby he believed to be his newborn daughter, caused a furore when they were published in the Sun in February and renewed calls for better sex education in Britain.
Politicians were moved to speak out about the case.
Tory leader David Cameron said he found the sight of "children having children" extremely worrying.
And Children's Secretary Ed Balls said it was an "awful" and "unusual" case.
Source : BBC