GUILTY TX - Seguin, Adult Skeletal Remains in Bedroom of House, July 2019 - Jacqueline Crayton *Arrest*

[Hazelnutty]

Good Lord have mercy on this child!

Wth is wrong with people like this?

 

[PastTense]

That poor teenager! No wonder she had runaway!! She'd been living with her dead Grandma's decomposing body for years.

But remember she was living in the house when her poor grandmother was was dying and screaming for help. I think any of us in that situation would have gotten help for her no matter what our mother said.

 

[Gardener1850]

According to Fox 7 Austin, police said Jacqueline Crayton could have survived if her daughter had attended to her injuries.

The daughter, Delissa Crayton, 47, was arrested on a felony charge of injury to a child, police said.

The chief told reporters that Delissa Crayton worked as a dispatcher for the Seguin Police Department until she quit in 2014.

Fox San Antonio reported that Jacqueline Crayton worked as a secretary and a teacher's aide for the Seguin school district for 35 years. She retired in 2000.

Nichols said the dead woman was well-known and respected in Seguin.

Texas woman lived with mother’s skeletal remains for 3 years

 

[iulia]

There is a NamUs page for these remains.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Gardener1850]

There is a NamUs page for these remains.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

I guess the identification is not official yet? They must be waiting on DNA.
MOO.

 

[AliceInPain]

I guess... how horrible for the family =(

 

[Gardener1850]

The woman accused of allowing her mother to die on the floor of a home they shared and then letting the remains stay inside the Seguin residence for years is scheduled to appear in a Guadalupe County courtroom today.

Delissa Crayton, 48, indicted on three first-degree felony charges, was scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. Tuesday in court for an arraignment, according to court documents. A grand jury found enough evidence existed to try Crayton on one count of injury to a child with intent to commit serious bodily injury or mental injury, and two counts of injury to an elderly person with intent to commit serious bodily injury or mental injury.

Crayton allegedly forced her teenage daughter to live in the home and forbade the child from helping the child’s 71-year-old grandmother as the elderly woman cried for help from the floor of her bedroom, the indictment read.

According to the court documents, Delissa Crayton intentionally and knowingly caused serious mental deficiency, impairment or injury to her own daughter by “preventing (the child) from administering care to Jacqueline Crayton after Jacqueline Crayton fell in defendant’s home, and forcing (the child) to reside in a residence with a deceased, decomposing human corpse for approximately three (3) years,” count one of the indictment reads.

Delissa Crayton also prevented the girl from getting “help for Jacqueline Crayton in response to her screams for help,” according to count two.

Count three of the indictment accuses Delissa Crayton of “forcing Jacqueline Crayton, who lived and had fallen in defendant’s home to remain on the floor of her bedroom for a period of days, or by closing the door to Jacqueline Crayton’s bedroom when Jacqueline Crayton was on the floor, unable to get up, or by refusing to call for help for Jacqueline Crayton, or by preventing defendant’s daughter... to get help for Jacqueline Crayton in response to her screams for help.”

More charges filed in skeletal remains case

 

[Cagle]

So sad. I wonder if she broke a hip. I don't understand how someone could be so cruel to leave her there & refuse aid, and likely food/water for her.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Woman who let mother die and decompose with daughter at the home gets 30 years in prison