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Article: Teenager Alfie: I'll have a DNA test to find out if I'm the dad
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- February 17, 2009
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BABY-faced "father" Alfie Patten has pledged to take a DNA test
after two other boys claimed they had also slept with baby Maisie's
teenage mother.
Chantelle Steadman (15) said 13-year-old Alfie is the father of
her one-week-old baby daughter.
The news that such a young boy had fathered a baby prompted a
fierce political debate over the high rate of teenage pregnancies
and the sexualisation of children.
But Richard Goodsell (16) and Tyler Barker (14) told the News of
the World they had slept with Chantelle around the time she became
pregnant and claimed she also had other sexual partners.
Alfie said he would take a DNA test to establish whether he is
Maisie's father.
His spokesman Max ...