Article: OUT OF CONTROL; Drunk 15-year-olds who've had sex with three boys in one night. 13-year-olds asking for chlamydia tests.As every school is promised a sexual health nurse, one woman who's done the job for 24 years gives a disturbing insight into howa generation of children are spiralling ...

Byline: HELEN WEATHERS

THE 15-year-old schoolgirl, smartly dressed in her school uniform, sat in front of school nurse Viv Crouch with trembling hands and eyes red-rimmed from crying. A pretty, rather dainty teenager with her shoulder-length blonde hair neatly pulled up into a ponytail, she nervously sipped a glass of water before the words tumbled out of her pale, drawn face.

The previous night, she said, she'd been to a party at a friend's house. She and her schoolfriends had been drinking vodka, so much that she couldn't remember how many glasses. She was drunk.

What she did hazily recall, however, in the cold, unforgiving, hungover light of ...

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