THE mother of a 16-yearold schoolgirl whose body was recently found in Brown’s Town, St Ann, said she can “never be whole again” following the savage murder of her daughter.

The body of Tashiek Nugent, a student of Brown’s Town High, was found on the grounds of the Addison Park Sports Complex on New Year’s Eve.

While many Jamaicans were still celebrating the arrival of the New Year, a cloud of gloom hung over the Nugents’ family home in Sturge Town on Thursday when the Jamaica Observer North East visited.

On what should have been the preparation for the arrival of 2014, the mother, father and siblings were left mourning the loss of the baby of the family.

Sonia Nugent explained that she last saw her daughter on Christmas Eve when she left home for Grand Market in Brown’s Town.

Being the protective mother that she is, Nugent said she asked her daughter to be home by 8:00 pm that night. However, her daughter decided to go and stay with a family member.

Although concerned at first, recognising that she was with family, Nugent said she did not make a fuss. “This is the first time that she disobey this way,” Nugent explained, “She was disobedient, but she did not deserve it.”

While the police await the result of a post mortem to determine the cause of death, family members theorise Nugent may have been raped before she was murdered, as her clothes were undone.

But the pain is even greater for Nugent’s mother who is now mourning the loss of a second child. This as, her eldest child was killed in an accident along the Llandovery main road in St Ann, in 2009, which claimed the lives of nine persons.

Now only a few years later, another child has been tragically taken tragically from her. “I have five children; two is gone, I can never be whole again. Half of my family is gone.

My children are my friends,” a very devastated Sonia Nugent said. “How could you do that to her?” was the question which rang from the lips of the mother. Her pain was even more intense as January 2 marks the anniversary of the funeral service of her eldest daughter.

Nugent explained that she had developed medical problems following her eldest daughter’s death and had to remain at home for sometime. She was just now getting ready to go back to work as she knew it was time to “throw a partner” to pay for Tashiek’s subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate later this year.

“Mi can’t come out again,” she lamented. While obviously in pain, Nugent recalled fond memories of her daughter. “She was very friendly and outgoing,” she said. “She is independent. She has that determination.

She knows what she wants. She was a determined child,” she added. Nugent also remembered her daughter for the unique hairstyles she created. “She loves combing her hair.

Once she know someone wears her style she changes it,” she reminisced Nugent said her daughter had hoped to have either become a cosmetologist like her deceased sister or to serve as a police officer. The fourth former was a part of her school’s cadet group.

On Thursday, Nugent sat with one of her daughter’s notebooks reading a composition she had written about her career goals. “It just hit you like that,” the mother, still in shock at her daughter’s death, stated.

“It is sad when people can take away the life of people like that. Let God decide whether you live or die,” she added. Nugent explained that the death of her youngest child was also very traumatic for her other children who shared a close relationship with her.

“They hurt the family; the community… you kill her and there are other people suffering,” she said. She explained that her husband, Oscar, was also very devastated by the death of his “wash belly” with whom he had a very close relationship.

“He cried until his face swell,” she said. Shelly-Ann McKenzie, a sister of the teen, remembered her as a loving person who liked to have fun.

“She was provoking in a fun way,” she explained, adding that her sister liked to play tricks on her siblings as a means of having fun. Shanice Nugent, although obviously shaken by the death of her younger sister whom she once shared a room with, remembered her as a loving person. “She was jovial.

She was a possessive person about the things and the persons she really cared about,” she explained. Shanice who was celebrating her birthday on Thursday was obviously in no celebratory mood as she was still in shock at the passing of her sister.