'The girl never wears make-up or flashy clothes. 'He is a bit of a rogue - just one of the lads. It's a longstanding relationship, he has been going out with her for at least a year. They don't go out to pubs or clubs or anything like that. But her mum is worried about her kids being taken into care.' One of his friends said: 'They are a very quiet couple. He said of the pregnancy: 'I'm not bothered about it, it happened. The young father-to-be is believed to have been questioned by social workers and police, but not to have been arrested. He claims he will stand by her and help bring up both babies.īut for the time being at least, the family will have to rely on welfare payments. Her boyfriend is a daily visitor to her mother's semi-detached council house on the outskirts of town.Īccording to neighbours he often stays late, and is sometimes there overnight. However, the background to her second pregnancy, now in its seventh month, appears to be the more familiar one of 'illicit' teenage romance. The family had to be rehoused because of the ensuing publicity and she later claimed she had been raped by the man. The girl did not realise she was pregnant until she started giving birth on the lavatory of her family home. He was convicted of having unlawful sexual intercourse and jailed for seven years at Sheffield Crown Court, but the sentence was halved on appeal. He had fathered a child with her mother, too, which was born ten days before hers. The girl's first baby was fathered by a man of 23 who was also her mother's lover. Her own mother was just 14 when she had her, and went on to become Britain's youngest grandmother at 26. The schoolgirl's family background makes depressing reading. One neighbour on a council estate in Rotherham said: 'She is giving out the message that it's OK to keep getting pregnant and the state will just keep paying for it.'
Her unborn baby's father is 17 and out of work, so the financial burden of supporting her growing family will continue to be borne by taxpayers. Not content with getting pregnant at 11 and giving birth at 12, she is now expecting her second child at the age of 14. They chose the latter and have left the village for an unknown destination.The young mother lives in an area with one of the worst rates of under-age pregnancy in the country. In the past they would have to be killed but today we cannot do it because we are afraid of the police.” He warned them to break off their marriage or leave his village. Otherwise they will accuse her of promiscuity.”īut local headman Nathan Muputirwa says: “We cannot allow this to happen in our village, mashura chaiwo aya, (This is a bad omen indeed). “It is better to publicise what is happening because people should know that I am the one who made my mother pregnant. “I know my father died before he finished paying the bride price and I am prepared to pay it off,” he said. “Let me enjoy the products of my sweat,” she told the village court.įarai said he was more than prepared to marry his mother and would pay off the ilobola balance his father had left unpaid to his grandparents. Now you see that my son is working and you accuse me of doing something wrong. “Look, I strove alone to send my son to school and no one helped me. She said after spending a lot of money sending Farai to school following the death of her husband, she felt she had a right to his money and no other woman was entitled to it.
She confirms that she is six months pregnant and that she has decided it is better to “marry” her son because she does not want to marry her late husband’s young brothers, whom she says are coveting her.īetty stunned a village court last week when she said the affair with her son had begun three years earlier. Betty Mbereko (40), who was widowed 12 years ago, has been cohabiting with her first child, Farai Mbereko (23). And now they want to marry since the mom is six months pregnant and expecting her son’s first child. A mother and her son have done the unthinkable – they have fallen in love with one another.