Posted on 06/16/2006 9:46:56 PM PDT by beaversmom
Scotland's youngest mother and her baby will be taken into care as soon as they leave hospital, it was reported today.
The 12-year-old has been banned by social workers from going back to her family home in West Lothian, according to the Scottish Sun.
The infant was born at St John's Hospital in Livingston, West Lothian, on Wednesday but was reportedly transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a lung problem.
The girl, who has not been named, fell pregnant aged 11 after having sex with a 15-year-old on a drunken night out with friends in Edinburgh last August. He has been charged with statutory rape.
The schoolgirl told the Scottish Sun: "There is no way I want to go into care. I want to go home with my mum so that we can all be a family. I know I can be a good mum. I need to be given the chance to try."
The newspaper said social workers may allow the girl to live with her aunt when she leaves hospital if the 37-year-old passes a strict assessment by the West Lothian Council.
The girl's 34-year-old mother criticised social workers, saying: "How can they do this to us now? I want my daughter home, but failing that, she has a relative who is happy to take her if only she can get passed by the council.
"For two social workers to barge in on her and the baby and break this to her without anyone else from the family being there is a disgrace."
The family claimed social workers thought their three-bedroom council flat was not adequate for the growing family.
But there were also believed to be concerns about allegations of drug-taking and drinking at the property.
The family have vowed to fight the decision and said they were seeking legal advice.
A West Lothian Council spokesman refused to talk about the case and would only say: "I would be inappropriate to comment. A multi-agency team is continuing to provide care and support."
The girl has quit school after a string of exclusions for fighting with fellow pupils and now receives lessons at a local community centre.
It was reported last month that she smoked up to 20 roll-up cigarettes a day and had started drinking aged 10.
She is not thought to be Britain's youngest mother - that title has gone to a girl from Gloucestershire who got pregnant at 11-and-a-half and gave birth in March aged 12 years and three months.
Copyright Press Association 2006
Interesting choice of terms....like an illness. At least we know the cause.
No, no, no, all wrong. You fall down drunk and you get UP pregnant.
An 11 year-old on a "drunken night out with friends"? Good grief.
And, what is a "council flat"?
Aye, Bonnie Scotland....
Ah. Amazing what nanny-stateism can do to families. Enables all sorts of unhealthy, anti-social behavior. Like drunken, pregnant 11 year-olds.
-ccm
"The girl, who has not been named, fell pregnant aged 11 after having sex with a 15-year-old on a drunken night out with friends in Edinburgh last August."
How romantic!
I don't think it says the girl was drunken, the father was drunken.
Nope, my bad. It DOES say she started drinking at 10! What a granny this girls mother will be??????
Well, the grammar is a bit dense, but it says: "The girl, who has not been named, fell pregnant aged 11 after having sex with a 15-year-old on a drunken night out..." She was out and apparently, drunk.
Amazing, huh?
Those 20 rolled cigs per day weren't healthy either! Her behavior problems could likely be attributed to her abruptly ended childhood turning to drinking, smoking and carousing. Poor girl will never be able to capture that which she's missed.
She'll never even be able to understand what she's missed.
Mom is 34 and is "split up" from the girl's dad--no indication she was ever married to him. Plus she's got other kids. One as young as one I believe. Nothing I have read to indicate she married that daddy either. She's a fine mum/granny.
Notice how the child in this girl comes out as she begs to be back with her 'mum' to raise this baby? Sad really, the girl is conflicted between childhood and motherhood.
It's a mess. If they had any sense over there, they would convince that little girl to have that little baby adopted to a decent married couple.
good stable family life
From the piss poor to the aristocracy, it is a generation of drunk junkies. I haven't seen so much cocaine since L.A. in the late 70's.
BUMP!
I thought that to be pretty young until I remembered Loretta Lynn was only 27 when she became a grandmom.
It's a British expression for accidental pregnancy, like "knocked up" is for us. "Knocked up" is used by the British in a VERY different way.
High-rise welfare housing, built by the local county or city councils.
If you walk down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh on a sunny summer morning, you will see a hundred people blind, stinking, vomiting, gutter-crawling drunk.
--- Thats a lie. I live in Edinburgh and walked down the Royal Mile about 45 minutes ago and the only annoyance was tourists (many American) standing in the middle of the footpath taking photos.
Certainly Scotland has a binge drinking problem, no-one would deny that, but what you said is patently untrue.
-ccm
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