A 13-year-old boy pictured in a British tabloid cradling an infant is reportedly one of the country’s youngest-known fathers. Baby-faced and only 4 feet (1.22 meters) tall, the boy, Alfie, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun said. Shown in a video posted Friday to the tabloid’s Web site, Alfie looks more like he’s 8 — not 13 — as he takes the newborn girl in his arms.
Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a high-pitched voice, “What does financially mean?” The girl was reportedly taking birth control pills but missed one, the newspaper reported. Friends and relatives left the family home near Eastbourne, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) southeast of London, without speaking to reporters waiting outside Friday. The teenagers could not immediately be contacted.