BRYANS ROAD, Md. – On December 19 at approximately 8:35 a.m., an eight-year-old student at J.C. Parks Elementary School was near his bus stop in a residential neighborhood on Hard Bargain Circle and Montrose Road when a woman in a white Chevrolet Malibu stopped and asked him to get into her car. The child initially declined but then he complied.
The woman, later identified as Krystal Ninette Clay, 64, of Bryans Road, drove a short distance and stopped in the middle of Chapman’s Landing Road in Bryans Road. She then began searching for her phone. At that moment, a local resident, who had noticed the vehicle stopped in the middle of the roadway, approached the car to investigate. Upon nearing the vehicle, the woman observed the child crying. Concerned, she asked if the boy was okay. The child replied that he was not and needed help.
The concerned woman immediately called 9-1-1. Officers arrived at the scene, and after further investigation, it was determined that the driver and the child did not know each other and there was no reason for the woman to pick the child up. The driver claimed she had picked the child up to give him a ride to school. As a result, Clay was arrested on the scene. The child, who was not injured, was safely reunited with a parent. Clay has been charged with abduction of a child under 12, a felony…