Hope the mother can come out of the trauma. :'(
A British brother has brought the greatest pain to her younger sister by raping her and making her pregnant when she was only 12.
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Jason Middleton admitted raped an 11-year-old, who became pregnant. Pic by Iain McLellan
The victim, Tressa Middleton, 24, of Bathgate, Scotland, was raped by her 16-year-old brother at her age of just 11. She had a baby girl since then but she was forced to give her away after authorities found the shocking truth.
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Tressa had suffered a deep depression and heroin addiction from the decision unit last year in October, she and her fiance Darren Young, 31, have their baby Arihanna.
She treasures her second daughter so much and she understands that she should be happier than ever, but describes the experience has been bittersweet without her first daughter.
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"I felt pure joy the moment Arihanna was born. There were times I thought I'd never have another baby, like it wasn't meant to be," said Tressa. "'But I also feel so guilty, because Arihanna is with me and my older daughter is not."
"She is still the first thing I think about every morning and the last thing I think about at night.
"I love her so much and I'll always be her mum. I can't be properly happy without her. It breaks my heart that Arihanna will grow up without knowing her big sister.
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With the deep affection for her first child, the 24-year-old mom expects the two daughters meeting someday when they are older. She has kept pictures, handprints, clothes and a lock of her first baby at her home in Bathgate.
"Arihanna will always know she has a big sister. I talk to her about it now, even though she can't understand. She'll never be a secret."
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She described her two daughters were polar opposites: Arihanna is smiley and contented, while my other daughter was vocal and feisty.
"I tell Arihanna that if her sister was here, they'd play games together. I joke Arihanna would follow her around and they'd probably annoy each other," she added. "I really hope that one day they can meet. It would mean the world to me."
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Tressa treid her best to provide Arihanna a happy childhood since her mother, Tracey Tallons, struggled with drink and drug addiction when she was a toddler. She cried because couldn't sleep through parties which stretched into the early hours.
And she was sexually abused by her bother since she was seven and four years later, she got pregnant after he raped her.
Jason Middleton admitted raped an 11-year-old, who became pregnant. Pic by Iain McLellan
Tressa kept the dreadful details of her first daughter's conception secret until she told a social worker. A DNA test revealed indicated the dad of the baby and her brother was jailed in 2009 for four years.
Her first was taken and she was told would be contacted once the little girl got adopted. Their last meeting was at the age of three of her daughter.
"I didn't realise it was the last time I'd see her. She didn't recognise me and she was scared. I couldn't hug her, I had to stand back when I talked to her," she said. "The worst part was when she shouted for her mummy - but she meant her adoptive mum, not me."
She said she wasn't allowed to say "mummy loves you" to avoid confusion to the baby.
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Tressa then sank into deep depression and used alcohol and drugs to numb the pain of losing her daughter.
Luckily, she managed to get rid of drugs with the help of a counsellor and began to build a new life with Darren. The couple had their child, Tressa's second, in 2012.
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The girl is now 11 and is aware she is adopted but Tressa wants to tell her the truth by her own self.
"I hope her adopted parents don't tell her that I fell pregnant because Jason raped me.
"I don't want her to read it in the paper, either. I think I should be the one to tell her. I want to explain everything to her, when she is old enough to understand.
"As for Arihanna, I'd prefer she didn't know the full details of my past."
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The U.K. government argues that the interception of the vessel by American special forces backed by British sea and air support, alongside a U.S. pledge of security guarantees for Ukraine, vindicate Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s efforts to keep Trump from abandoning America’s European allies.
Others say that is wishful thinking, as the U.S. capture of President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s renewed desire to acquire Greenland put Starmer’s bridge-building efforts under potentially intolerable strain.
“The U.K. is trying hard to find positive things to say about all this,” Bronwen Maddox, director of international affairs think-tank Chatham House, said Thursday. “The tanker gives governments like Keir Starmer’s a way to support the U.S. without supporting everything it’s doing.
“You can see the dilemma: The U.K. and Europe don’t want to provoke Trump and the administration, which might put at risk first the defense of Ukraine and second the defense of Europe and third their trade deals,” Maddox said. “But they’re torn, because they also want to stand up for principles.”
Debriefing British lawmakers on the ship seizure, Defense Secretary John Healey insisted that the U.K. and the U.S. remain “the closest possible defense and security allies.” NATO, he added, “is stronger now, larger now and more united now” than ever before.
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Healey had a different emphasis, framing the interception of the ship as it headed toward Russia as action to support Ukraine and tackle the “shadow fleet” of decrepit tankers used by Russia and Iran to evade international oil sanctions.
“Last year, it was estimated that Russia sold up to $100 billion from sanctioned oil, money which is directly funding attacks against Ukrainian citizens,” Healey said. “We owe it to Ukrainians to step up on these shadow operations, and we are.”
Since Trump’s return to office a year ago, European nations including the U.K. have struggled with how to deal with a president who has slapped tariffs on trading partners, quit international organizations and derided NATO, the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security for more than 75 years.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday lamented that the United States is “gradually turning away from some of its allies and freeing itself from the international rules.”
Starmer continues to emphasize the positive. The center-left prime minister has made it a key goal to keep on Trump’s good side, and to keep Trump onside with Europe over Ukraine.
He has refrained from direct criticism, despite strong political pressure to condemn Trump’s attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, criticism of British immigration policy and $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC. He has declined to criticize the toppling of Maduro, stressing that the U.K. supports international law without saying whether the U.S. attack broke it.
British officials pointed to the Trump administration’s commitment at a conference in Paris this week to provide security guarantees for Ukraine after a future ceasefire as a concrete result of its approach. Healey said those guarantees “could not be more important.”
Leslie Vinjamuri, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said Starmer has "done a pretty good job in a very complicated situation where the U.K. clearly needs to depend on the U.S.
“It’s very tactical on the part of the U.K.,” she said. "Grab the United States where you can to demonstrate that you’re on the same page, that you are useful.
"That’s pragmatic politics. That’s realism."
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Maddox said that Trump’s proposal “to seize the sovereign territory of a European country, a NATO member” is so egregious that Starmer’s “dance of keeping under the radar begins to look not just ridiculous but self-defeating.“
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the 'Coalition of the Willing' summit on security guarantees for Ukraine, at the Elysee Palace in Paris Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026. (Ludovic Marin, Pool photo via AP)
A boat sails past the oil tanker Nord Star, Panama, on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Edgar Frias)
