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Alfie Patten, the boy who was reported to have fathered 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 year-old girlfriend pregnant. But the tests established in March that a year-old boy from Eastbourne is the father of Chantelle Stedman's baby.

The judgement also reveals that Alfie was "extremely distressed" about the results of the test. The real father of the baby is not being named by the BBC but an interview with his own father conducted in February, before DNA tests had confirmed his identity, has been broadcast. In it, the teenager's father, himself a single parent, says his son would have to stand by his responsibilities.

He added that he had no idea his son was having sex, saying he was too embarrassed to talk to him about it.

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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. Tory leader David Cameron said he found the sight of "children having children" extremely worrying. Most Popular Now 56, people are reading stories on the site right now.

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