Crystal Clayton was only 27 when she ended her life on Friday last week, April 17, 2015.
Her death brought to four the number of children who have died for Carmen Jack who is torn up by the latest loss of one of the seven to whom she gave birth.
It was only on Thursday, that Crystal Clayton was expressing how upset she was with the difficulties in her romantic relationship.Crystal, also called Tamar, had come home at 3 in the morning, surprising her mother who reminded her that she didn’t want her on the roads so late.Ms Clayton reported to her mother that she had a falling out with her boyfriend and had demanded he take her home at that time. But her mother had heard this many times before and seen the young woman go back into a visiting and living relationship with the man of her dreams, who lives in Runaway Bay about ten miles from her family home in Retirement, Brown’s Town.Mrs Jack said she has always tried not to insert herself into her daughter’s relationship but always assured her of her family’s love and that things would work out for her. “Sometimes she say she done (with the relationship) and then she gone back and call me and laughing,” said the mother.
NO RESPECT
On this occasion though it seems Crystal Clayton had reached a new departure. She told her mother that this time when she visited her boyfriend he had a woman at the house and didn’t want to acknowledge her (Crystal).
The word Ms Clayton used several ties, said her mother, was “disrespect”. Her mother said she told Crystal, third of her seven children, not to be bothered by that. However Crystal Clayton kept saying “Him don’t have any respect for me. Him don’t have any respect.”They had conversations throughout Thursday into the evening and the following day, Friday,Mrs Jack left her daughter in bed and went to work.Later that morning, Mrs Jacked called her about a chore and was assured by Crystal that she was fine. She said she called twice and her daughter was fine.One of Crystal’s Clayton’s brothers who was at home later heard her on the telephone and determined by the volume of her voice and the gestures that she was in a quarrel.Later when he checked on her, MsClaton had locked herself into the bathroom. After sometime, the brother, who couldn’t get her to open the door, though he called out to her many times, cut a string that locked the door and found her hanging by her scarf from a beam in the bathroom. It appeared she had gone on top of the toilet and kicked off from there.
HELPFUL DAUGHTER
Mrs Jack says her daughter, a graduate of Brown’s Town High School was a jovial person who loved stories and sometimes when not at home would call to find out how things were. She said though Ms Clayton was not employed and held no steady job, she was helpful in many ways and assisted her in her own work. “She is a jovial person, always make me laugh. She always helping me,” said Mrs Jack.
Mrs Jack told the North Coast Times that the loss was hard to bear as this was the fourth child she had who died. In fact Crystal Clayton had seen the body of the second of the children to die, and it hurt her for years. “She faint three times on the spot,” said Mrs Jack, recounting what had happened when Crystal Clayton went to the scene of the murder of her brother, Chinson Barnett, who was employed on a farm in Moneague. “Them chop off him neck clean clean,
