ဒန္.ကြ်ဲပင္ပုခက္ဆင္ႀကၿပီေလာ...
အခုရက္ပုိင္းအတြင္းအဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံမွာအုတ္ေအာ္ေသာင္းနင္းဟုိးေလးတစ္ေႀကာ္ၿဖစ္ေနတဲ.အသက္
၁၃ ႏွစ္သားေလးကကေလးအေဖၿဖစ္တဲ.သတင္းေလးပါ..
ကေလးမ်က္နွာေလးနဲ.ကေလးအေဖအယ္ဖီကအေလးအညစ္အေႀကးခံတဲ.တစ္ခါသံုးဂြမ္းထုတ္
ေတြရဲ.တန္ဖုိးဘယ္ေလာက္ရွိသလည္းဆုိတာသူမသိပါဘူးလုိ.မေန.ကေၿပာခဲ.ပါတယ္..ေစ်းေတာ.
ႀကီးမယ္ထင္တာပါလုိ.လည္းသူကဆုိလိုက္ပါတယ္။
လက္ရွိအသက္၁၃ ႏွစ္နဲ.မလုိက္ေအာင္ပဲသူ.မ်က္ႏွာေလးက ၈ႏွစ္သားေလးလုိပဲနုနယ္ေသးေပမယ္.
သူ.ရီးစားခ်န္တဲလ္တစ္ေယာက္လြန္ခဲ.တဲ. ၄ ရက္က ၇ ေပါင္နဲ.သံုးေအာင္စရွိတဲ.သမီးေလးေမစီကုိ
ေမြးဖြားခဲ.တာမုိ.သူဟာအဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံရဲ.အငယ္ဆံုးကေလးအေဖၿဖစ္သြားခဲ.ပါၿပီ...
အရပ္ေလးေပသာရွိေသးတဲ.ကေလးမ်က္နွာေလးနဲ.သူငယ္က”ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဟာငယ္ေသးတယ္ဆုိတာ
ကြ်န္ေတာ္.ကုိယ္ကြ်န္ေတာ္သိပါတယ္၊ဒါေပမယ္.ဖခင္ေကာင္းတစ္ေယာက္ၿဖစ္ေအာင္ေတာ.ႀကဳိးစား
သြားပါ.မယ္”လုိ.ေၿပာပါတယ္...
အသက္၁၅ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ.သူ.ရဲ.ရည္းစားနဲ.Play Station ကစားေနတဲ.ေကာင္ေလးက”ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ.
ဟာမိဘ၀တၱရားေက်ပြန္တဲ.သူေတြၿဖစ္ရမယ္၊ေက်ာင္းမွာလည္းစာကုိပုိၿပီးႀကဳိးစားရေတာ.မယ္”လုိ.
ဆုိပါတယ္။ ( အခုေတာ.ဗီဒီယုိဂိမ္းေဆာ.လုိက္ဦးမယ္ေပါ.... )
သူနဲ.သူ.ရည္းစားတုိ.ဟာကုိယ္၀န္ရွိမွန္းလည္းသိေရာကေလးကုိဖ်က္မခ်ပဲေမြးဖြားဖုိ.ဆံုးၿဖတ္ခဲ.ႀက
ပါတယ္။ကေလးရွိေတာ.ပုိေကာင္းတာေပါ.ဗ်ာလုိ.လူပ်ဴိေပါက္အသံေတာင္မၿဖစ္ေသးတဲ.သူငယ္ေလး
ကရွက္စနုိးနဲ.ဆုိပါတယ္။ ( ခုိးစားတာအထုပ္နဲ.အထည္နဲ.လူမိသြားတာကုိး...)
”ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ.ေရွ.ေလွ်ာက္ဘယ္လုိသြားရမယ္မသိေသးပါဘူးခင္ဗ်ာ” ”ကြ်န္ေတာ္မုန္.ဘုိးလည္းမရပါ
ဘူး။ကြ်န္ေတာ္.အေဖကေတာ.တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ေပါင္ တစ္ဆယ္ေလာက္ေတာ.ေပးပါတယ္”လုိ.သူက
ေၿပာပါတယ္။
PS3 ... new dad Alfie Patten, 13, and mum Chantelle Steadman, 15, with baby Maisie and PlayStation
အရပ္ေလးေပသာရွိေသးတဲ.ေကာင္ေလးကကြ်န္ေတာ္.အေမသိသြားတံုးကကြ်န္ေတာ္ၿဖင္.ဒုကၡေရာက္
ၿပီလုိ.ေအာက္ေမ.တာ။ကေလးေတာ.လုိခ်င္ပါရဲ.လူေတြကဘယ္လုိမ်ားေၿပာႀကမလဲဆုိတာကိုလည္းစုိး
ရိမ္မိေသးတယ္လုိ.ဆိုၿပန္ပါတယ္။
သူ.ရဲ.ဇတ္လမ္းကုိ The Sun သတင္းစာႀကီးကေဖာ္ၿပလုိက္တဲ.အခါတစ္နုိင္ငံလံုးအထိတ္တလန္.ၿဖစ္
သြားၿပီးအတိုိက္အခံနုိင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဒးဗစ္ကင္မရြမ္းကအဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံမွာကေလးကေလးေမြး
တာေတြဘယ္ေလာက္ေတာင္မ်ားၿဖစ္ေနၿပီးစုိးရိမ္စရာေကာင္းေနၿပီလုိ.ၿပစ္တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္။
၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ေဂၚဒြန္ဘေရာင္းကေတာ.ဒီကိစၥကုိတုိက္ရုိက္ေၿပာဆုိဖုိ.ၿငင္းဆုိလုိက္ၿပီးအစုိးရအေနနဲ.အ
၇ြယ္မေရာက္ေသးသူလူငယ္ေတြကုိယ္၀န္မေဆာင္ရေအာင္အစြမ္းကုန္ႀကဳိးပမ္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ.ပါတယ္
လုိ.ေၿပာႀကားခဲ.ပါတယ္။
အယ္ဖီ.အေဖကေတာ.ဒီေကာင္ေလးဟာသူ.အေၿခအေနကုိသူသေဘာမေပါက္ေသးဘူး။ဒါေပမယ္.
သူ.ကုိႀကည္.ရတာေတာ.ဖခင္ပီပီသသၿဖစ္ခ်င္၊တာ၀န္ယူခ်င္ပံုေပါက္ပါတယ္လုိ.မေန.ကေၿပာဆုိခဲ.
တယ္။
သူ.သမီးေလးေမြးၿပီးေတာ.သူကပဲပထမဦးဆံုးကေလးကုိခ်ီခ်င္ေနတာေလ။ၿပီးေတာ.ကေလးကုိဖြဖြေလး
နမ္းၿပီးနုိ.ပုလင္းေလးေတာင္ေပးလုိက္ေသးတယ္။
အသက္ ၄၅ ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ.အယ္ဖီ.အေဖဒင္နစ္ကသူ.သားဟာအိမ္မွာဂိမ္းကစားေနရမယ္အရြယ္ပါ။ဒါ
ေပေမယ္.ေန.တုိင္းကေလးေမြးတဲ.ေဆးရံုကုိေရာက္ေနတာပါပဲလုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။
အယ္ဖီနဲ.သူ.ရည္းစားတုိ.ဟာလြန္ခဲ.တဲ.ကုိးလေက်ာ္အယ္ဖီ.အသက္ ၁၂ ႏွစ္ပဲရွိေနေသးတံုးပဲတစ္ႀကီမ္
တစ္ခါပဲက်ဴးလြန္မိတာနဲ.ကုိယ္၀န္ရွိသြားခဲ.တာပါပဲ...
သူတုိ.ဟာကုိယ္၀န္ရွိေနတာကုိမိဘေတြကိုအသိမေပးပဲလွ်ဳိ.၀ွက္ထားခဲ.ၿပီးေလးလေက်ာ္ႀကာေတာ.
မွခ်န္တဲလ္တစ္ေယာက္ခႏၶာကုိယ္အခ်ဴိးအစားေၿပာင္းလာတာကိုသူမအေမသတိထားမိၿပီးအတင္းအ
ႀကပ္ေမးေတာ.မွမိဘေတြသိသြားႀကတာပါ...
ေနာက္ေတာ.အယ္ဖီ.မိသားစုကရင္းႏွီးတဲ.သူေတြကုိဒီကိစၥအသိေပးခဲ.ပါတယ္။အယ္ဖီကုိလူယုတ္မာလုိ.
စြပ္စြဲႀကမွာစုိးလုိ.ပါတဲ....
ခ်န္တဲလ္ဟာမက္ဆီေလးကုိငါးနာရီေလာက္ဗိုက္နာၿပီးမွလြန္ခဲ.တဲ.တနလၤာေန.ကေဆးရံုမွာေမြးဖြားခဲ.
ပါတယ္။ေမြးၿပီးေတာ.ကြ်န္မမွာပင္ပန္းလုိက္တာ။ေမြးခန္းထဲ၀င္ေတာ.လဲေႀကာက္လုိက္တာ၊စိတ္လဲ
လွဳပ္ရွားမိတာေပါ.လုိ.သူမကဆုိပါတယ္။
သူမကုိယ္၀န္ရွိတာကုိစသိတဲ.အေႀကာင္းေၿပာၿပရာမွာခ်န္တဲလ္က”အဲဒီတံုးကကြ်န္မဗုိက္ေတာ္ေတာ္
ေအာင္.လုိ.ေဆးခန္းကုိအယ္ဖီနဲ.အတူတူသြားႀကတာေလ... ဆရာ၀န္ကကြ်န္မကုိရည္းစားနဲ.လြန္လြန္
က်ဴးက်ဴးၿဖစ္ခဲ.လားလုိ.ေမးတယ္ရွင္.... ကြ်န္မကဟုတ္ပါတယ္လုိ.ေၿဖေတာ.ကုိယ္၀န္ရွိမရွိစမ္းသပ္သင္.
တယ္လုိ.ေၿပာၿပီးစမ္းသပ္စစ္ေဆးလုိက္တာကြ်န္မမွာကုိယ္၀န္ရွိပါတယ္လုိ.အေၿဖထြက္လာတယ္။ကြ်န္မ
ၿဖင္.ဘာလုပ္လုိ.ဘာကုိ္င္ရမွန္းမသိေတာ.ပဲငုိမိတာပါပဲ” လုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္...
”သူကေတာ.ကြ်န္မအေမကုိေၿပာလုိက္လုိ.ေၿပာတယ္၊ဒါေပမယ္.ကြ်န္မကေတာ.ေႀကာက္တာေပါ.ရွင္”
”မိဘေတြဆီကလည္းဘာမွအကူအညီမလုိဘူးလုိ.ထင္ပါတယ္၊ကုိယ္.မွာကုိယ္၀န္တကယ္ရွိလာေတာ.
ဘာကုိဘယ္လုိစဥ္းစားရမွန္းေတာင္မသိပါဘူး၊မိဘေတြသာသိရင္ကုိယ္.ကုိသတ္မွာလုိ.ပဲေတြးေနမိတယ္”
ဒါေပမယ္.သူမရဲ.အေမဟာခ်န္တဲလ္ကုိတီရွပ္တစ္ထည္၀ယ္ေပးၿပီးတဲ.အခါမွာေတာ.သူမရဲ.မုိ.ေဖာင္းေန
တဲ.ဗိုက္ေႀကာင္.ကုိယ္၀န္ရွိေနတာတြက္ဆနုိင္ခဲ.ပါတယ္လုိ.သူမကေၿပာပါတယ္။
ခ်န္တဲလ္ကေတာ.သူနဲ.အယ္ဖီဟာေတာ္ေတာ္ကုိအဆင္အၿခင္တံုကင္းမဲ.တယ္လုိ.ေ၀ဖန္ေၿပာဆုိခံရတယ္
လုိ.၀န္ခံလုိက္ပါတယ္။သူတုိ.ႏွစ္ေယာက္စလံုးဟာလည္းအခုအထိမိဘေတြကိုမွီခုိေနရဆဲပါပဲ။ကြ်န္မတို.
မွားခဲ.တယ္ဆုိတာသိပါတယ္။ဒါေပမယ္.ဒီအမွားကုိၿပန္ၿပင္လုိ.မရေတာ.ပါဘူး။မိခင္၊ဖခင္စိတ္ေကာင္း
ေကာင္းထားဖုိ.ပဲရွိပါေတာ.တယ္လုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။
အခုဆုိကြ်န္မဟာဘုရားရွိခုိးေက်ာင္းကိုလည္းသြားပါတယ္။ကြ်န္မလုိပဲငယ္ငယ္ရြယ္ရြယ္နဲ.ကေလးေမြး
တဲ.သူေတြကိုကူညီတဲ.အလုပ္ေတြလုပ္သြားမွာပါလုိ.သူမကဆက္ေၿပာပါတယ္။
ခ်န္တဲလ္နဲ.သမီးေလးေမစီကုိေတာ.မေန.ကပဲေဆးရံုကေနဆင္းခြင္.ၿပဳလုိက္ပါၿပီ။သူတုိ.ဟာခ်န္တဲလ္ရဲ.
မိခင္ပန္နီရယ္၊အလုပ္လက္မဲ.ၿဖစ္ေနတဲ.ဖခင္စတိဖ္ရယ္နဲ.အစ္ကုိငါးေယာက္တုိ.ႏွင္.အတူငွားထားတဲ.
အိမ္မွာေနႀကပါတယ္။သူတုိ.မိသားစုအားလံုးအစုိးရအေထာက္အပံ.နဲ.စားေနႀကရတာပါ။
အယ္ဖီကေတာ.အသက္ ၄၃ ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ.သူ.အေမနီကုိလာနဲ.အတူေနပါတယ္။ဒါေပမယ္.လည္းအခ်ိန္
တုိင္းနီးပါးသူ.ရည္းစားခ်န္တဲလ္တုိ.အိမ္မွာပဲရွိေနတာပါ။သူ.ကိုေတာ.ညအိပ္ခြင္.ပါေပးထားၿပီးေနာက္ေန.
မုိးလင္းတာနဲ.ေက်ာင္းကုိတစ္ခါတည္းသြားနုိင္ေအာင္ေက်ာင္း၀တ္စံုပါယူလာထားပါၿပီ။
အယ္ဖီ.ရဲ.အေမနဲ.ကြာရွင္းထားတဲ.ဖခင္ကေတာ.သူ.သားဟာေတာ္ေတာ္ေတာ.ေႀကာက္သြားမွာပဲလုိ.
ယံုႀကည္ေနပါတယ္။
”လူေတြကဟုိေၿပာဒီေၿပာနဲ.ဆုိေတာ.ဒီေကာင္လည္းေတာ္ေတာ္ခ်ာလပတ္ယမ္းေနၿပီ။သူ.ကုိဘာေၿပာလုိ.
ေၿပာမွန္းေတာင္သိေတာ.မွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ကေလးေမြးတယ္ဆုိတာဘာမွန္းလည္းသိမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။သူသိ
တာဆုိလုိ.အေဖနဲ.အေမကကူညီေပးမယ္ဆုိတာပါပဲ” လုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။
”ကုန္က်စားရိတ္ေငြအေႀကာင္းေၿပာယင္းသူမ်က္နွာလႊဲလုိက္ေတာ.တာပဲ၊ကေလးမေလးကေတာ.သူ
အေဖနဲ.အေမကုိအားကုိးေနရတာ၊တစ္ကယ္.ကုိစိတ္ရွဳတ္စရာပါ။ေရွ.ေလွ်ာက္ဘယ္လုိစခန္းသြားရ
မယ္ဆုိတာသူတုိ.တစ္ခ်က္ေလးမေတြးဘူး” လုိ.သူကဆက္ေၿပာပါတယ္။
ပ်က္စီးေနတဲ.ကားေတြကုိလုိက္သယ္ေပးတဲ.အလုပ္ကုိလုပ္ေနတဲ.အယ္ဖီရဲ.အေဖဒင္းနစ္ကေတာ.
သူ.သားဟာတကယ္ ၁၃ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကေလးတစ္ေယာက္ပါပဲလုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။
”သူဟာဂိန္းကစားမယ္၊လက္ေ၀ွ.ပဲြနဲ.မန္ယူကုိႀကဳိက္တယ္” လုိ.သူ.သားအေႀကာင္းကုိေၿပာပါတယ္။
အယ္ဖီအပါအ၀င္ကေလးကုိးေယာက္ဖခင္ဒင္းနစ္ဟာသူ.သားကေလးအေဖၿဖစ္ေတာ.မယ္လုိ.သိ
လုိက္ရတဲ.အခါႀကက္သီးေမြးညွင္းေတာင္ထသြားခဲ.ရတယ္လုိ.ဆုိပါတယ္။
”ကြ်န္ေတာ္သူ.ကုိေမးေတာ.ဒီေကာင္ေလးဟာငုိလုိက္တာ၊သူ.ဘ၀မွာဒါဟာပထမဦးဆံုးမိန္းကေလးနဲ.
အိပ္မိတာပါလုိ.လဲေၿပာရဲ.။သူ.အေနနဲ.ဘာလုပ္လုိ.ဘာကုိင္မိမွန္းမသိပါဘူးၿပီးေတာ.အဲဒါေႀကာင္.ၿဖစ္
လာမယ္ေကာင္းက်ဴိးဆုိးက်ဴိးေတြကိုလည္းနားမလည္ပါဘူး”လုိ.သူကေၿပာပါတယ္။
“ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ.သူ.ကုိအိမ္ေထာင္ေရးအေႀကာင္းနားလည္ေအာင္ထပ္ေၿပာရေတာ.မယ္။တစ္ခ်ဳိဳ.က
ေတာ.ေနာက္ေတာင္က်ေနၿပီလုိ.ေၿပာႀကဦးမယ္။ဒါေပမယ္.ေနာက္ထပ္ကေလးေတြမရေအာင္ေတာ.
ဒီေကာင္နားလည္ထားမွၿဖစ္မယ္လုိ.”သူ.အေဖကဆက္ေၿပာပါတယ္။
ခ်န္တဲလ္ရဲ.မိခင္ကေတာ.ကေလးရတာေကာင္းေပမယ္.အေၿခအေနတစ္မ်ဴိးမွာပဲၿဖစ္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။အခု
အိမ္မွာက ကေလးငါးေယာက္ေတာင္ရွိေနၿပီမုိ.ေငြေရးေႀကးေရးဒုကၡ၊အခက္အခဲေရာက္နုိင္ပါတယ္။ဒါေပ
မယ္.လည္းကုိ.မိသားစုမုိ.အားလံုးမွွ်ေ၀ခံစားရမွာပါလုိ.ဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။
သူကကြ်န္မရဲ.သမီးေလ။ကုိယ္.သမီးကုိေတာ.ခ်စ္တာေပါ.၊သူမကုိေတာ.လုိေလေသးမရွိေအာင္ထားပါ
တယ္လုိ.လဲေၿပာလုိက္ပါေသးတယ္...
လြန္ခဲ.တဲ.ညပုိင္းကေတာ.ပဋိသေႏၶဖ်က္ခ်ေရးကုိဆန္.က်င္တဲ.ခရစ္ယာန္ကူညီေရးအဖဲြ. က မိီကယ္လာ
အက္စ္တြန္က ”ကြ်န္မတို.အေနနဲ.အခုလုိ.လူငယ္ေလးေတြသူတုိ.ရဲ.ရင္ေသြးငယ္ေတြကုိရဲရဲရင္.ရင္.နဲ.
လူ.ေလာကထဲကုိေခၚလာနုိင္တာကုိခ်ီးက်ဴးေထာက္ခံပါတယ္” လုိ.ဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။
” တစ္ခ်ိတ္ထဲမွာပဲဒီအၿဖစ္အပ်က္ဟာယေန.လူငယ္ေတြအေနနဲ.လိင္မွဳဆိုိင္ရာအလြန္အကြ်ံလုိက္စား
မွားယြင္းမွဳလကၡဏာဆုိတာကုိၿပသေနၿပီးပညာေရးဌာနရဲ.လိင္မွဳဆုိင္ရာပညာေပးအစီအစဥ္ေတြမထိ
ေရာက္ဘူး၊အလုပ္မၿဖစ္ဘူးဆုိတာၿပသေနတာပါပဲ ” လုိ.သူကဆက္ေၿပာလုိက္ပါတယ္။
ၿဗိတိန္နုိင္ငံရဲ.အသက္အငယ္ဆံုးကေလးအေဖစံခ်ိန္တင္ထားသူကေတာ. အသက္ ၁၂ ႏွစ္အရြယ္
ရွန္စတီး၀ါ.ဒ္ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၁၉၉၈ ခုႏွစ္တံုးကသူဟာအသက္ ၁၅ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိသူ.ရည္းစားအန္မာ၀က္ဘ္
စတားကဘက္ဖုိ.နယ္ရွန္ဘရြတ္ၿမဳိ.မွာကေလးေမြးခဲ.လုိ.ကေလးအေဖၿဖစ္ခဲ.တာပါ။သူတုိ.နွစ္ေယာက္
ကေတာ.ေၿခာက္လအႀကာမွာကြဲကြာခဲ.ပါတယ္။
ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲသတင္းမ်ားအရကေလးအေဖဟာသူတုိ.လည္းၿဖစ္နုိင္ေႀကာင္း၊ခ်န္တယ္လ္နဲ.လြန္ခဲ.တဲ.
ကုိးလေက်ာ္ေလာက္ကအတူအိပ္ခဲ.ေႀကာင္း၊ခ်န္တဲလ္ဟာေယာကၤ်ားေလးေပါင္းမ်ားစြာနဲ.အိပ္ခဲ.
ေႀကာင္းဒါေႀကာင္.ကေလးအေဖဟာဘယ္သူလဲဆုိတာအတိအက်သိဖုိ.ခက္ေႀကာင္းစသည္ၿဖင္.
ေကာင္ေလးႏွစ္ေယာက္ကလဲထုတ္ေဖာ္ေၿပာဆုိလာလုိ.အယ္ဖီကေတာ.သူသာလွ်င္ကေလးရဲ.
ဖခင္ၿဖစ္ေႀကာင္းကုိသက္ေသၿပဖုိ. DNA ေဆးစစ္ဖုိ.ဆံုးၿဖတ္လုိက္ပါၿပီတဲ....
ဒီလုိအညီအေဟာက္ဇတ္လမ္းမ်ဴိးလူစိတ္၀င္စားလာၿပီဆုိယင္အထုပၸတိေရးမည္.သူ၊ဇတ္လမ္းရုပ္
ရွင္ရိုက္မည္.သူမ်ားကမ္းလွမ္းကာနာမည္းႀကီးၿပီးခ်မ္သာမည္.celebrity ၿဖစ္မည္မုိ.အခုလည္း
The Sun လုိ.နာမည္ႀကီးသတင္းစာတြင္အထူးေဆာင္းပါးၿဖင္.သတင္းပါလာၿပီးတစ္နုိင္ငံလံုး
ဟုိးေလးတစ္ေႀကာ္ၿဖစ္လာလုိ.သူတုိ.လည္းၿဖစ္လုိၿဖစ္ၿငား၀င္ပါလာတာလဲၿဖစ္နုိင္ပါတယ္။
အယ္ဖီရဲ.မိခင္နဲ.ခ်န္တယ္လ္ရဲ.မိခင္တုိ.လဲကေလးငယ္ေလးေမစီကိစၥနဲ.စကားမ်ားႀကတယ္လုိ.
လည္းသတင္းေတြကဆုိေနႀကပါေႀကာင္း...
မူရင္းသတင္းေလးကုိတြဲၿပီးတင္ထားပါတယ္။
BOY dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost — but said: “I think it’s a lot.”
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
The four-footer — who looks no more than eight — said: “I know I’m young, but I plan to be a good dad.”
As he went on the PlayStation with 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, he added: “I think we’ll be good parents. I’ll have to work extra hard at school.”
He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.
The shy lad, whose voice has not yet broken, said: “I thought it would be good to have a baby.
“I didn’t think about how we would afford it. I don’t really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me £10.”
The baby father ... Alfie Patten with little Maisie
Alfie, who is just 4ft tall, added: “When my mum found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried how people would react.
“I didn’t know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and care for it.”
Alfie's story, broken exclusively by The Sun today has sparked a huge political storm with Tory leader David Cameron saying: "When I saw these pictures this morning, I just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children.
"I hope that somehow these children grow up into responsible parents but the truth is parenthood is just not something they should be thinking about right now."
Secret
PM Gordon Brown refused to comment directly on the story but said it was important that the Government did all it could to prevent teenage pregnancies.
Alfie’s dad Dennis yesterday told how the lad does not really understand the enormity of his situation — but seemed desperate to be a devoted and responsible father.
He wanted to be the first to hold Maisie after the hospital birth. He tenderly kisses the baby and gives her a bottle.
And Dennis, 45, said: “He could have shrugged his shoulders and sat at home on his Playstation. But he has been at the hospital every day.”
Maisie was conceived after Chantelle and Alfie — just 12 at the time — had a single night of unprotected sex.
They found out about the baby when Chantelle was 12 weeks pregnant.
But they kept it a secret until six weeks later when Chantelle’s mum Penny, 38, became suspicious about her weight gain and confronted her.
After that Alfie’s family told only those closest to them for fear he would be “demonised” at school.
Chantelle gave birth to Maisie on Monday night after a five-hour labour at Eastbourne Hospital, East Sussex.
Last night she told The Sun: “I’m tired after the birth. I was nervous after going into labour but otherwise I was quite excited.”
Chantelle told how she discovered she was expecting after going to her GP with “really bad” stomach pains. She said: “Me and Alfie went. The doctor asked me whether we had sex. I said yes and he said I should do a pregnancy test. He did the test and said I was pregnant. I started crying and didn’t know what to do.
“He said I should tell my mum but I was too scared.
“We didn’t think we would need help from our parents. You don’t really think about that when you find out you are pregnant. You just think your parents will kill you.”
But Penny figured out what was going on after buying Chantelle a T-shirt which revealed her swelling tum.
Chantelle admitted she and Alfie — who are both being supported by their parents — would be accused of being grossly irresponsible. She said: “We know we made a mistake but I wouldn’t change it now. We will be good loving parents.
“I have started a church course and I am going to do work experience helping other young mums.
“I’ll be a great mum and Alfie will be a great dad.”
Chantelle and Maisie were released from hospital yesterday. They are living with Penny, Chantelle’s jobless dad Steve, 43, and her five brothers in a rented council house in Eastbourne. The family live on benefits. Alfie, who lives on an estate across town with mum Nicola, 43, spends most of his time at the Steadmans’ house.
Family ... new mum Chantelle with baby Maisie and her own mother Penny
He is allowed to stay overnight and even has a school uniform there so he can go straight to his classes in the morning.
Alfie’s dad, who is separated from Nicola, believes the lad is scared deep down.
He said: “Everyone is telling him things and it’s going round in his head. It hasn’t really dawned on him. He hasn’t got a clue of what the baby means and can’t explain how he feels. All he knows is mum and dad will help.
“When you mention money his eyes look away. And she is reliant on her mum and dad. It’s crazy. They have no idea what lies ahead.”
Dennis, who works for a vehicle recovery firm, described Alfie as “a typical 13-year-old boy”.
He said: “He loves computer games, boxing and Manchester United.” Dennis, who has fathered nine kids, told how he was “gobsmacked” when he discovered Alfie was to be a dad, too.
He said: “When I spoke to him he started crying. He said it was the first time he’d had sex, that he didn’t know what he was doing and of the complications that could come.
“I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and the bees talk. Some may say it’s too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby.”
Lovely
Chantelle’s mum said: “I told her it was lovely to have the baby but I wish it was in different circumstances. We have five children already so it’s a big financial responsibility. But we are a family and will pull together and get through.
“She’s my daughter. I love her and she will want for nothing.”
Last night Michaela Aston, of the anti-abortion Christian charity LIFE, said: “We commend these teenagers for their courage in bringing their child into the world.
“At the same time this is symptomatic of the over-sexualisation of our youngsters and shows the policy of value-free sex education just isn’t working.”
Today Sussex Police and the local council's children services said they have investigated the case and
Britain’s youngest known father is Sean Stewart. He became a dad at 12 when the girl next door, 15-year-old Emma Webster, gave birth in Sharnbrook, Bedford, in 1998. They split six months later.
Sean Stewart who is Britain's youngest known father. He was 12 at the time Emma gave birth to their son. They split up six months later
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