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Originally Posted by getbak

If he looked like he was closer in age to the girl, or at least post-pubescent, there would likely be much less of a reaction towards the story. It would be just another teen pregnancy story, which isn't even really a story...Which makes you wonder how this became a story in the first place. It says that the kids' parents (now the baby's grandparents) tried to keep the pregnancy quiet to avoid the children being "demonised" at school. Now, they're suddenly all over the Sun.

The only reason this is a story, IMO. The kid looks like he's 8 or 9. If he looked 13, this wouldn't have made the news.