Saturday, February 14, 2009

A tabloid moment

Dad at 13

The pictures at the above link show such a baby faced 13 year old that it is kind of hard to believe he is the father. (He's not taking the rap for someone else, is he?) The mother is his 15 year old "girlfriend". What was she doing playing around with a boy who looks about 10?

UPDATE: I really was too generous in that first post: he could pass for 8 or 9, in all honesty. I see that The Times has a lengthier article about it. In the accompanying video, it shows the school that the girl attends as being "A specialist school for the performing arts." Hmm. Fits in well with my recent run of posts about famous artistic souls and their lack of familiarity with the concept of self restraint. (Of course, I am being very unfair to this girl. Maybe.)

But even worse, is this:
Chantelle said that Alfie had regularly stayed the night.
Hello, parents? Anyone home?

UPDATE 2: I may have been right with my initial doubts that the boy is the father. In a very farcical turn of events, the large amounts of money apparently on offer for the story are almost certainly the reason that 2 other teenagers are happy to claim that they could be the real father, and DNA tests are being suggested. As The Guardian writes:
Small wonder that the News of the World has compared the situation to Channel 4 drama Shameless - only with "the total absence of anything remotely funny".
Not that I find Shameless funny, though.

2 comments:

Caz said...

What is it about Britain that they do freak shows so well, whether the poor or the politicians?

This child couple hid the pregnancy because they wanted to have the baby.

Stomach churning.

Caz said...

Just read the latest in the Herald-Sun.

Could it possibly get tackier?

And with the poor little lad getting all upset that anyone would accuse his girlfriend of having sex with anyone but him ... after all, he did ask her if he was the father and she said "yeah", so that's pretty conclusive.

That poor child is going to be very damaged if it turns out that everyone has been lying to him.