So, who the hell is Casey Aldridge?
Casey Aldridge is the 19-year old soon-to-be-father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby.

He’s a 19-year-old pipe layer; a deer-hunting, dirt-bike-riding former high school class president who still lives in his tiny Mississippi hometown. Casey Aldridge is an expectant father - and the mother is 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears. To hear Aldridge’s uncle tell it, the daddy-to-be isn’t quite ready to join Spears - the star of “Zoey 101″ and the sister of pop star Britney Spears - in the spotlight.

Britney’s Sister

Jackson said media were already swarming the southern Mississippi town - with a population of 1,073 at last census count - in search of Aldridge, not even 48 hours after the news came that Spears told OK! celebrity magazine about the pregnancy. She said she plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana.

Casey Hooked up with Britney’s Sister! Sweet, dude!

Boyfriend of pregnant teen Jamie Lynn Spears could face statutory rape charges :

Casey Aldridge could face statutory rape charges after getting Britney Spears’ sister pregnant at 16. He could face up to 10 years if convicted. Fox News reports that if the baby was conceived in Spears’ home state of Louisiana, the act could technically be considered “felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.” Louisiana law defines this as “sexual intercourse with consent between someone age 19 or older and someone between age 12 and 17.” In Louisiana a person can only legally consent to sex at age 17. If aged 15 or 16, the other person involved must be no more than two years older for the act to be considered legal.

But Aldridge wouldn’t fare much better if the “carnal” act happened in California, where Spears lives while on the set of her Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101. The Californian Penal Code states that any person who engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 18 who is not more than three years younger than the perpetrator, is guilty of a misdemeanour and faces up to one year in a county jail.

The subject of teenage pregnancy and sex was suddenly and uncomfortably in the air :

High school girls here wondered aloud on Thursday why no one was talking about contraception. Parents across the country, on the other hand, commiserated over the Internet about how, thanks to Ms. Spears, they were facing a conversation with their 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds about sex.

High school girls who had already had their hearts broken by the all-too-public life of Ms. Spears’s older sister, Britney, known as a hard-partying mother of two, worried that their younger sisters would be devastated by the news — or, worse, that their sisters might think it was “cool” to be 16 and pregnant.

Dan Martinsen, a spokesman for Nickelodeon, said Thursday that “Zoey 101” was one of its most popular shows among viewers 9 to 14. “Nothing about the content, characters or the storytelling on our air has changed at all,” Mr. Martinsen said. He said that Nickelodeon was discussing a special on the issue with Linda Ellerbee, the television journalist who is the host of “Nick News.” “Whenever an issue becomes so prevalent that it’s inescapable,” Mr. Martinsen said, “her show is where we turn to help kids navigate and interpret and understand it.”

Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and love following the news that 16-year-old “Zoey 101″ star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. :

“I think it’s important that something be done,” Ellerbee told The Associated Press on Thursday. “But I think it’s important that it be done in a measured way, and not just to feed the beast of news stories. A Nickelodeon spokesman, Dan Martinsen, confirmed the discussions but said no decision had been made.

Such a nice girl. How could something like this happen?