Father, 15, faces £55,000 CSA bill

The Child Support Agency is chasing a plumber for £55,000 maintenance despite him being only 15 when the baby was fathered and the mother being twice his age.

John Walker, now 25, was stunned to receive the maintenance demand which could take a third of his income. He told The Sun that he was a virgin when the 30-year-old woman seduced him.

"I lived out the fantasy of millions of schoolboys but this is a real-life nightmare," he said. He hadn't known he had fathered a child and when the woman became pregnant assumed it was by the man she later married.

"I was not involved in any of the decisions she took over her pregnancy but I am expected to pick up the bill," he said. "Why did this woman wait so long to call the CSA? I am being treated as a criminal but I was a minor led on by a woman who knew what she was doing."

As he was under 16 the woman was committing an offence but the police have said they are "unlikely" to take action.

Mr Walker, now living in Birmingham, has taken a DNA test which proves he is the father. The boy is now nine and Mr Walker could be paying for his support for another 10 years.

The CSA says children have a right of support from both parents and they are legally bound to collect maintenance.