From hard life in LA teen heading to West Point

LA Teen Beats Odds to Earn Admission to West Point
Mara Gay
Contributor
(April 9) -- This is what it looks like to beat the odds.

Tyki Nelworth, 18, was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point last week after enduring a lifetime of obstacles that would have stopped most people from accomplishing much of anything.

Nelworth's mother is in jail, his father is dead and he has had no permanent home.

At one point, he was taken from his mother because of suspected child neglect, and his sister told him he was a "crack baby."

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LA Teen Beats Odds to Earn Admission to West Point