I feel di pain inna mi belly bottom, mom cries
IN 2000, Nadine Campbell’s sister was raped and killed. Then, it was the most traumatic experience for her. Until last December. On December 14 in Ocho Rios, right before her eyes, her “pride and joy”, her 20-year-old daughter, Alisa Carey, was attacked and stabbed to death by her estranged boyfriend. Witnessing the attack and then having to travel beside her lifeless body in the back of a police pickup to the hospital are pictures that will forever be etched on Campbell’s mind.
And it seems like the pain will never go away.
“Lord Jesus! It come een like mi just have one baby. Mi feel di pain inna mi belly bottom ... (it’s like) when yuh just give birth to a baby and yuh feel yuh womb a cum up back when you just start breastfeed yuh baby,” Campbell said as she tried to explain her feelings less than eight weeks after the incident.
She continued, tears welling: “Every time mi lock mi eye, mi si mi baby a gasp. Mi see when him stab har; mi si when she drop a grung. It cum een like mi world ova an’ mi nuh know who fi jus ... mi cyaa sleep a night. Mi miserable. Mi ignorant.”
“But the thought of me being there when dat bwoy stab mi daughter show yuh how heartless him be,” she continued. “Him nuh have no regard for me. Him nuh have it fi nobody; no mercy him nuh have. An’ mi a tell yuh, man, if a nuh fi God an’ prayer an’ mi family, mi would a mad or dead, or suppm, because ... a nuh mi only child, but a mi pride, mi joy, mi baby, mi fren, mi sista. Lisa a everything to me.”
Campbell said that as she cried for help, people gathered around and started taking pictures with their cell phones.
Every time mi lock mi eye, mi si mi baby a gasp. Mi see when him stab har; mi si when she drop a grung. It cum een like mi world ova an’ mi nuh know who fi jus ... mi cyaa sleep a night. Mi miserable. Mi ignorant.