Since then her mother has had a number of relationships. The most recent of these resulted in the birth of Amy's youngest sibling, a boy called Momodou whose father has since returned to his wife and children in the Gambia. 'I don't need to go to ante-natal classes because nobody knows more than my mum about bringing up children.' Speaking with her mother's approval Amy - who smokes, and has had her nose, ears and belly button pierced - said: 'I don't really mind because I don't like school anyway and now I don't have to go any more. Two weeks ago a doctor confirmed that Amy was pregnant.
At first she had been reluctant to tell her mother, but suspicions were aroused when Amy began putting on weight and fainted. She had confided in her mother that she was missing periods.
'When she kept putting on weight I went out and bought a home pregnancy kit, which was when we found out the truth.' 'But I put that down to smoking,' said Mrs Crowhurst, who knew her daughter was already a regular smoker. The child's teenage father does not know about the pregnancy. Amy's mother knows only that he is 'a Jamaican boy from London' who visited Crawley for a night out.Īmy claims to have had sex with the boy only once. The result of that meeting has been the end of Amy's childhood. She can no longer play sport or even go to school with her friends.