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9th February 2018
01:34pm GMT

“It was just a combination of tragedy coupled with the other social situations you face when you live in poverty. “I never thought I’d be a single mum at age 24, especially of two boys, one of which was my 12-year-old student. And the other one who was only a year-and-a-half."As well as taking Jerome into her life, Chelsea also adopted Jace too. The brothers had been living with their mother and grandmother beforehand and the family had recently experienced the deaths of two other close family members. Since his adoption, Jerome has not been suspended from school. Chelsea regularly shares updates of her life as a new mother on her Facebook page. This month, she shared Jerome's grades in school, saying that she thought he was headed for a scholarship.