Govt won't pay for Alfie's DNA test

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It was reported this morning that a £300 paternity test would be paid for by the local council. “Social services agreed to do it for the sake of the children,” Penny Steadman, Chantelle’s mother, told The Sun. “The sooner it’s done, the sooner Chantelle and Alfie can get on with being parents.”

but The social services department facing public recriminations over a 13-year-old's fatherhood attempted to extricate itself from the row today by denying it had agreed to pay for a paternity test for Alfie Patten.


Nicola Patten, Alfie’s mother, is going to appear at Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court next week charged with “failing to send a child to school”. The teenager did not regularly attended classes at Willingdon Community School.


In the days after Alfie was pictured with his daughter, two further teenagers from the South Coast came forward to claim that they also had sex with the young mother. Here are the details of those 2 kids,




Max Clifford, a publicist representing the Patten family, said these claims prompted the family’s desire to prove the child’s paternity. (wow they're so famous they even need to hire a publicist!)