Tressa Middleton: A look at ‘Britain’s youngest mom’ today

Two years after the birth of her daughter, Annie, the baby was taken from Tressa.

The young mother was unable to care for her daughter and struggled with depression and addictions to alcohol and cigarettes.

“She was given to new parents, but I was allowed to see her every day for about six months before contact stopped. The last time I saw her was at a crèche – but she was crying for her new parents. It broke my heart,” Tressa told Closer.

All this pressure, public scrutiny and heartbreak became too much for Tressa to handle. And there was also another issue that haunted her — the identity of the child’s father.

Nobody knew the truth

Initially, Tressa claimed that a young local boy had gotten her pregnant, but the truth was much darker. The father’s identity remained a secret until 2009 when the young mother broke down and confided to authorities that she had been sexually abused by her older brother, Jason Middleton.

Tressa had became pregnant after her brother, then 16, took her to a construction site where he attacked her.

”We used to go there and play our bikes. One minute he was absolutely find and the next everything was different,” Tressa told ITV.

It wasn’t long after the incident that Tressa’s body began to change.

Her friend was the first to suggest she might be pregnant. She pulled Tressa aside one day and mentioned the possibility, but Tressa tried to deny it. Her friend insisted they should check, so they had her friend’s father buy a pregnancy test.

The terrible, dark secret

The next morning, Tressa took the test, and it confirmed that she was pregnant.