{"id":466,"date":"2026-04-08T01:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmpackz.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:51:48","slug":"uks-youngest-parents-abused-girl-who-gave-birth-at-12-and-boy-who-claimed-to-be-dad-at-13-tressa-middleton-was-horrifically-raped-by-her-brother-aged-11-while-alfie-patten-has-battled-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmpackz.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"UK’s youngest parents – abused girl who gave birth at 12 and boy who claimed to be dad at 13 Tressa Middleton was horrifically raped by her brother aged 11, while Alfie Patten has battled the bottle since claiming to have become a teenage dad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At age 12 Tressa Middleton became Britain’s youngest mum. She later revealed she had been raped by her older brother, and she gave her baby up for adoption(Image: MDM)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

They were the poster children of ‘Broken Britain’ – a tragically abused girl who became a mum at 12, and a boy who claimed he had fathered a child aged 13.<\/p>\n

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And in the years since their infamous rise to fame, Tressa Middleton and Alfie Patten have struggled to rebuild their lives, battling drugs, booze and heartbreaking tragedies.<\/p>\n

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Over the weekend, reports emerged that a\u00a0young girl in Britain has given birth to a baby aged 11<\/a>, with social services investigating the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy.<\/p>\n

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The shocking birth is thought to make her the UK’s youngest mum, a title previously held by tragic Tressa, who spiralled into heroin addiction after she was raped aged 11 by her eldest brother, Jason.<\/p>\n

Alfie, meanwhile, insisted he was Britain’s youngest dad before a DNA test proved otherwise. Plunged into depression by the revelation, he was this year kicked out of his home after allegedly using it as a base for drug operations.<\/p>\n

Here, we reveal what became of the two young Brits who stunned the nation.<\/p>\n

Paid \u00a32 for sex by strangers and raped by brother<\/h3>\n

Growing up in a poor home in West Lothian, Scotland, Tressa watched her own mum, Tracey Tallons, struggle with drink and drug addiction.<\/p>\n

As a toddler, she cried her way through parties which stretched into the early hours.<\/p>\n

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In her book, Tressa: The Twelve Year Old Mum,<\/em>\u00a0she recalled that while still a schoolgirl, seedy predators begged her for sexual favours in return for booze, cigarettes and small change – with one pervert paying her \u00a32 for sex.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cHe did what he liked with me and, sometimes, I was so drunk I didn\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n

“Afterwards, he always gave me a couple of quid for it. It made me angry.”<\/p>\n

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At home, there was no escape either. Tressa had a troubled relationship with her brother, Jason, whom she said could be “loving one minute and different the next”.<\/p>\n

When she was just 11, he lured her to a\u00a0derelict building site near their home<\/a>\u00a0and horrifically raped her.<\/p>\n

Traumatised by the attack, Tressa felt unable to tell her mother about the changes she was noticing in her body a few months later.<\/p>\n

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She confided in a friend who bought her a pregnancy test which confirmed her worst fears \u2013 her brother had impregnated her.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoon after I began noticing changes in my body,\u201d Tressa later told This Morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI eventually did a pregnancy test and it came up I was pregnant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was too scared to tell my mum, so I told my aunt and then ran away.<\/p>\n

\u201cMum was furious but she calmed down eventually.”<\/p>\n

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Tressa, who had spent a lot of time in care, dared not tell her mum that Jason was the father of her unborn child.<\/p>\n

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Scared and alone, she claimed the baby was the result of a drunken liaison with a teenager and, after giving birth to a little girl in 2006, spent two years raising her alone – keeping her dark secret to herself.<\/p>\n

Aged 14, she finally revealed the truth to a friend and Jason was arrested. But when she finally confessed the truth, she was denied contact with her child, which was taken into care.<\/p>\n

After a trial in 2009, Jason was jailed for four years after DNA tests proved he was her baby\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

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Battled trauma and \u00a3400-a-day heroin habit<\/h3>\n

Over the the next three years, Tressa struggled to overcome the trauma of her ordeal.<\/p>\n

In and out of care homes, she fell into a spiral of drink and drug use to numb the pain \u2013 using up to \u00a3400 of heroin a day at her lowest point.<\/p>\n

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In 2011 she checked into rehab to kick the habit, and opened up on the true extent of her addiction.<\/p>\n

“I was injecting heroin nine or 10 times a day, at the same time as smoking it constantly,” she told\u00a0The Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would take it to forget everything, and to blank out what Jason had done to me.”<\/p>\n

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By now she had met her boyfriend, Darren Young, but Tressa admitted the pair had struggled with heroin addiction for six months.<\/p>\n

She finally decided to go to rehab after video footage emerged of her injecting drugs into her groin.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Dad of Britain’s biggest family shows off impressive barbecue feast for 22 kids<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest bit about coming off heroin is that you have to face up to things,” she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can cope with the physical withdrawal symptoms but I find it hard to cope with my past now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cry every single day for my daughter. I think I\u2019m just starting to realise that I had my chances with her and I failed her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miscarriage tragedy days before mum’s death<\/h3>\n

By 2014, Tressa had got clean and was beginning to turn her life around.<\/p>\n

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Now aged 19, she had fallen pregnant with Darren’s child and was tentatively looking forward to starting a family.<\/p>\n

In a heartbreaking twist, however, she lost the baby after suffering a miscarriage – only to be told days later that mum Tracey had died.<\/p>\n

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