Danville girl makes vow to set standard for baby

DANVILLE – At 15, Jessica Penn sat in a hospital emergency room, stunned by the news that she was pregnant.

"I don't need kids. I'm too young," she thought. She never imagined she'd become a teen mom like her mother and older sister.

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