Crashing Into Adulthood: Jesse - latimes.com

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Jesse Equihua, trapped inside the foster care system since he was nine years old, recently aged out. "Damn, I'm actually going to graduate, emancipate. I was happy but I had this little voice in my head right there that says you got to make the biggest leap from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. It's a big old step, the biggest jump for any group home kid," says Equihua.

Jesse Equihua

( GAIL FISHER / Los Angeles Times )

Jesse Equihua, trapped inside the foster care system since he was nine years old, recently aged out. "Damn, I'm actually going to graduate, emancipate. I was happy but I had this little voice in my head right there that says you got to make the biggest leap from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. It's a big old step, the biggest jump for any group home kid," says Equihua.

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