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13 Year Old Alfie Definitely Not A Dad
It’s official — Alfie Patten is not the father of baby Maisie. Biologically, at least.
Alfie thought that he had impregnated 15-year-old Chantelle Stedman when he was just 12 years old. Although I admit that science is not my strong suit, that didn’t seem possible to me. I guess I was right. (Take THAT Mr. Knauer! He was my bio teacher a long time ago. But I digress.)
This news isn’t completely new, but it has just now been released after a ban on the info by a British court was overturned. A judge had previously ruled that “the rights of the teenagers took precedence over the Press’s right to report the case.” Well, I guess not.
This is an interesting point, one that I’ve thought of a few times over the past few years. Maybe minors’ names should never be released to the public. What possible reason is there for us to know their full names? Does it really enhance our ability to understand a story? I don’t see how it could. In my opinion the idea the “the press has a right to know” or report or whatever is very suspect when it comes to matters like this. Why does the press have more rights than a kid?
Source: Daily Mail
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2 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI figure that if the parents of these minor parents sold them out, well…
My HS health teacher informed us “that if you can see hair on his legs, he can get you pregnant”.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWell it enhances my need to gossip about it
Seriously though, the photo above does not look like it was taken candidly so it says to me that Alfie was a willing participant in this farce, as was the mother and all of the 20-something year old grandparents (TIC)
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