Barnett, Latoya

Latoya Barnett is a 27-year-old mother of four beautiful children. Born in Jamaica, she was raised in The Bronx, New York, where she attended junior high school and, for a time, high school there. Growing up in Jamaica was not easy in that very poor country, but she remembers many good times there, too, before leaving for New York at the age of ten. A victim of abuse in different ways, she used the pain to overcome those bad experiences and to make emotional progress. A teenage mother, Latoya had her first child at the age of 16. She says any obstacles she encountered in life helped her to gro...