Legal poser for girl, 11, set to become Britain’s youngest mother?

Police are investigating the case of a pregnant 11-year-old who is set to become Britain’s youngest mother. The father is understood to be a couple of years older than the girl, according to an ‘east of England’ force. Few details of the pregnancy are being made public for legal reasons, meaning it is unknown whether the youngster was abused by someone known to her or if she believed she was engaging in a consensual act, despite being a child and way under the legal age of consent. The relevant local authority is understood to be seeking strict reporting restrictions in the High Court’s family division. The mother-to-be is expected to give birth soon. The news comes just weeks after a woman who was once Britain’s youngest mother announced she was expecting a second child more than a decade later with her fiancé, 30-year-old Darren Young. Tressa Middleton, now 23, gave birth in 2006 – at the age of 12 – after she was raped by her brother. She raised the child for the first two years, but the baby was taken into care as a toddler when she revealed the identity of the father to authorities. The youngest father on record in Britain is Sean Stewart, of Bedford, who became a dad aged 12 in 1998. Britain has gained a reputation since the end of World War Two for being the ‘gymslip mum’ capital of Europe. Today, however, the number of UK teenagers giving birth is at its lowest level in almost 70 years.