PAEDO footballer Adam Johnson is a dad again after girlfriend Stacey Flounders gave birth to a baby boy.
The Sun on Sunday told at the weekend how she had taken him back following his jail sentence and was pregnant with their second child.
And Stacey, 31, has now given birth to a beautiful baby boy.
Both mother and baby are thought to be doing fine.
A friend said: “Adam and Stacey are both thrilled to be parents again – and to have a little boy.
“Stacey is feeling great, everything went just the way she wanted and now she is just really enjoying motherhood and showing her little boy off to friends and family.
“Being a mum, having a family, is all she ever wanted. She is absolutely over the moon. This is the fresh start they wanted. They are both so happy.
“They've been through a lot but she is happier now than ever.”
The couple – who also have a daughter – split during Johnson’s trial in 2016 for abusing a teenage girl he had groomed.
At first Stacey stood by the former England winger but she dumped him after learning the full extent of his betrayal during the 14-day hearing at Bradford crown court.
Stacey said later: "I realised who Adam really was — an arrogant man who lied and lied to me. It destroyed me.
“I wanted to get up and punch him. He'd humiliated me.”
She moved out of their £1.85m mansion and went public with their split while giving evidence herself at the trial.
She told the jury she saw no future in their relationship and added: “I have decided we are just going to remain friends."
She later branded him an “arrogant cheat” who had ruined her life.
But Stacey took him back after his release from prison and they rebuilt their lives together during lockdown.
'SHE NEVER HATED HIM'
A friend said: “Stacey never thought of Adam as a paedophile. She knew he made mistakes and was furious with him for all of his cheating.
“But she never hated him.
“She thinks he is a brilliant dad and they always wanted a sibling for their daughter.”
Former air stewardess Stacey met Johnson in October 2011.
They grew closer during his last few months at Man City and moved in together shortly after he signed for Sunderland in a £10m move in August 2012 on £60,000-a-week wages.
But by the spring of 2014 their relationship was heading for the rocks.
His trial heard that he began texting other women and Stacey later revealed that, unbeknown to her at the time, he was cheating on her with at least 12 others.
Things reached crisis point in January 2015 when Johnson was arranging to meet the 15-year-old Sunderland fan in his Range Rover.
She thinks he is a brilliant dad and they always wanted a sibling for their daughter
They met on January 17 so he could give her a signed shirt and he then sent her a string of flirty texts to arrange a second meeting so he could get a "thank you kiss" for the shirt.
They met again on January 30 and shortly after parking up in his Range Rover they began kissing and engaged in further sexual activity.
Johnson claimed he stopped after the kissing because he felt guilty about Stacey and his daughter.
But the jury at his trial decided he lied. He was convicted of sexual activity after earlier admitting grooming and kissing the girl. He was cleared of another sexual activity charge.
The trial heard he had texted her to discuss going even further at a third meeting. He said he wanted to get her jeans off, suggested they would go in the back next time and talked about how turned on she had been.
At the same time Stacey was sending him a string of anguished texts pleading with him to work with her to get their relationship back on track, the jury was told.
Stacey was horrified when he was arrested in March 2015 but agreed to stand by him after a 90-minute heart-to-heart in which she thought he had come clean about his infidelity.
It was only as the case unfolded that she learned the full extent of his cheating.
She later publicly revealed that after one particularly difficult day at court she told him: “I'm not standing by you anymore. I'm moving out.”
She added: “He said: 'I'm sorry, I'm stupid. I didn't know what I was doing.' But I couldn't believe a word he said."
They sold their family home, Johnson was sacked by Sunderland and adidas ripped up his £10,000-a-year sponsorship deal.
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