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Callum Pearson was the husband of Sarah Pearson and the abusive stepfather of Ali Redback.

Callum was "out of work", according to his wife, but was still able to afford to shower Ali with gifts to keep her quiet after abusing and raping her. Eventually Ali fell pregnant as a result of his abuse of her. Ali later sneaked into school and left the baby in the changing rooms, but he was later found and he and Ali were taken to hospital to be checked over.

Callum is first seen when he and Sarah arrived in hospital, with Sarah angry that Ali has bad a baby at 16. He is later seen getting very aggressive with a nurse when she suggested Ali stay in hospital for a couple of hours to make sure she is okay, after he had suggested they go home, and he only calms after Karen persuades Sarah to take him off for a coffee or tea.

Callum wanted to give the baby up for adoption to avoid Sarah and the authorities finding out what he did to his stepdaughter, but Ali was not okay with this as she wanted to keep her son and wanted to escape her stepfather once and for all. She asked Kyle to run away with her, but they were seen by Christopher Mead.

They began to run when Karen Fisher, Sarah and Callum arrived to stop them, with Callum grabbing Ali by force while she held her son. Ali shouted "I don't want him touching me again!" revealing to everyone that he raped her and that he was the one who got her pregnant, much to her mother's, teachers' and Kyle's horror, and Callum's fear now that the truth was revealed.

Kyle tried to defend Ali but he was shoved to the ground by Callum. Kyle later stood up and was shoved again until Chris Mead punched Callum and almost beat him up, but Karen stopped him. Then Ali's mother, Sarah, went hysterical and attacked her husband shouting "What have you done!?".

Callum is last seen being arrested.

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