Deceased/Not Found HI - Peter 'Peter Boy' Kema, 6, Honolulu, 11 Sept 1997 *P. & J. Kema guilty*

[missacorah]

Thank you for posting that. Its awful. I mean dog faeces? How could they? What could he possibly have done to derserve that?

 

[AlohaGal]

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2007/08/31/local_news/local02.txt

Might have to use "bug-me-not" to access the article.

Peter Boy's siblings reveal chilling details

Friday, August 31, 2007 10:05 AM HST

~snip
"I didn't listen and went and opened the box," she wrote. "I saw Peter Boy in the box, crouched down with no clothes on. I went to ask Peter why Peter Boy was sleeping in a box. I didn't get an answer."
~snip

 

[Angels_Not_Forgotten]

oh how awful!

 

[Elphaba]

The Big Island is vast in unpopulated areas due to the high volume of volcanic activity... I wouldn't be surprised if the parents disposed of his body in an out-of-the-way lava tube or collapsed crater. I don't buy for one minute that he was left with someone in Oahu. Bless that poor child...

 

[indicajane]

I accidently stumbled upon the "Peter Boy" documents while looking up some unemployment information on the Hawaii site, I should have known y;all would have a thread about it.

I've been digging through, some of the files won't open for me, and I'm only up to the three older kids (when Peter was tiny) living with a foster family, and the parents not following through with any of the directions.
All I see is, second chance, third chance, fourth chance, ect ect. None of these kids had a SHOT and the worst part is there was the state involved from day 1 of this child's life...ordering the parents to therapy, paying their light bills, even their car note!! and the mother just keeps getting pregnant..the dad keeps abusing these kids whenever he can get his hands on them..sexually and otherwise. It's depressing, because I know how it ends for Peter Boy...but I don't need to be a sociologist to see that was where it was headed all along.

I've lived in Hawaii, and it is a different culture. I can read the local dialect in the paperwork. Disputes with the foster family giving them "stink eye" ect ect. A common perception from haoles is that the hawaiians would never abuse children. Unfortunately, according to many locals I have spoken too about this case (and Cyrus' too, he wasn't missing, but abused and thrown onto the highway while I was living in Honolulu) it is not as uncommon as people like to think. Crazy people exist everywhere, even among the Pacific Islanders..
I just wish that the state would make this whole file required reading for any social worker in all states....

 

[indicajane]

LOL, I'm probably posting to myself, since this is an ancient thread..but in further reading, I think I have a rough clue about Peter singling out his namesake rather then his step-children for the most severe abuse.
I've had an inkling that the father of those children was on island, and not pleased with the whole situation. When the step children were 2 and 4 I first see him appearing in court with his mother, and Jay, the mother was not happy about that.
I am probably completely wrong, but I also see him noted in further court documents as present when decisions are being made about where they live. From what I can pick up (kind of hard, because alot of the family members names are blacked out) the "foster family" is really family..which very much fits in with the hawaiian culture. I'm not sure if its the mother's family, but very likely is.
I am probably wrong, story of my life, but I'm getting a picture from the pysch reports that Peter sr is a huge coward. I would say that his fear of the step children's natural father is what kept him from severely abusing/killing them. Prob am wrong, because that fear didn't keep him from molesting the daughter..but maybe he thought that wouldn't show/wouldn't come to light?

 

[Kat]

Off topic indicajane but I just read where there are close to 20 foster children on the big Island that can't be found or accounted for at this time.

I believe IIRC, they may have found a handful according to last nights news.

Yes it is almost an entirely different world here, even though it is the US. JMHO.

 

[Kat]

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/6258/0/
NamUs Profile:
Dental: NA
DNA: NA
Fingerprints: NA

This month will mark 13 years that Peter has been missing. Come home soon sweetie.

 

[Wanting2Help]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/whatever_happened_to/20110428_Peter_Boy_is_still_missing_and_his_case_remains_inactive.html?id=120847594

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 28, 2011
Question: Whatever happened to the case of Peter "Peter Boy" Kema Jr., the Big Island boy who disappeared in 1997?

Answer: Peter Boy, who would turn 20 on Sunday, remains missing.


An age-progression rendering of what Peter Boy would look like as a 19-year-old was created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and posted on its website last year.

The depiction was computer-generated based on photos of the missing 6-year-old child, his parents and siblings, said Missing Child Center-Hawaii Director Charlene Takeno.

Takeno said the state agency has received no new tips on Peter Boy.

 

[skybludeb]

There's a trilogy of books written by Dave Pelzer that was the worst case of child abuse in California. I think it was California anyway.

The titles are: A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive, The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family, and A Man Called Dave: A Story of Triump and Forgiveness.

It details abuse that happened to him and I guarantee you if you choose to read them you will next at least one box of tissues. He was the only one out of his family tormented until he was removed from the home. Then his mother moved on to abuse another child.

My hat is off to you CaliKid for trying to help these poor children. After reading the second of Dave's books, I appreciated foster parents even more.

I read all three of daves books and he is the most couragous man to have not only lived through the abuse but to become such an awesome man.

 

[skybludeb]

The Big Island attorney who represents the mother of Peter Boy Kema said nothing in the missing child's recently opened confidential case implicates his client in any crime.

Harry Eliason said the child's mother, Jaylin Kema, is a victim of "guilt by association."

"There is no allegation that my client did anything wrong," Eliason said last week. "Somehow or another, it's implied that mom did something. There is not one piece of evidence to indicate mom did anything harmful to that child."

Jaylin Kema was troubled by the state Department of Human Services' recent release of 2,000 pages of records involving Peter Boy because it reopened old wounds, Eliason said.

But the disclosure that her youngest child told a psychologist that she saw Peter Boy's dead body was both disturbing and a surprise, Eliason said.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/13/ln/ln03p.html

I think the mother did not protect her child! If the sister saw what was going on the mother did also. I would take a bullit for my children i would take the beating before my child

 

[Truman]

If anyone is still around this thread, take a look at:

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2157

I contacted a few NamUs people regarding whether Peter has been excluded as possibly being this UID and will post results, but in the meantime I'm eager to hear any thoughts you might have.

I am so sorry to ask this, but would any soft tissue remain after several years if the body had been in or around the water?

God bless both Peter and this unidentified child.

 

[BOESP]

Truman, I just found this thread today. Tragic, just tragic. I think you did the right thing reporting Peter Boy Kema to NamUs. Whether it's a match or not it may stir up interest.

 

[Veidt]

I wonder if something will come of it... I hope that they figure it out eventually.

I don't know if I believe that he was sent away to live with someone else. Why would the father abuse him and then send him away to live with another person? The only cases where I've heard of this happening is when parents either love their kids but can't support them they way they would want or when they are indifferent. Not when they are actively cruel. :twocents: What's more, was this woman they claimed to have given Peter to ever found? JMO but the logical thing after the father said that would be to go find her and verify that Peter was alive.

Maybe if the father really hated looking at Peter for some non-reason, he abuses him and then later gets tired of doing it and sends him away. Who knows how the mind of such a person would work, but maybe he felt jealous that he had to compete with Peter for his wife's attention or was paranoid that his wife had been cheating on him. I wonder if the mother could have sent him away. Was she actively participating in the abuse? If she was standing by she could have been too scared of her husband but then decided to take a stand one day and send her son away to a place she thought was safer. :twocents:

But the most likely scenario IMO is that he was killed by his parents probably his father, or even by the family he was sent to live with.

 

[Truman]

In case anybody's still checking this thread...I emailed a NamUs contact to ask whether Peter had been excluded as a possibility for UID 2157. It was over a month ago and I've not heard back other than a confirmation she received my message. No changes on the UID's or Peter's NamUs pages, either. Have any of you contacted NamUs before? Should I follow up? I have no connection to the case and they certainly don't owe me any information, but I want to make sure somebody's advocating for these kids.

 

[Truman]

I know it's a long shot that anybody's still here, but I did get a reply from the investigator on this case. It was literally a single sentence.

"The KEMA family has not been willing to give a DNA sample for comparison.

Pam Cadiente
Chief Investigator
Dept of the Medical Examiner
835 Iwilei Road
Honolulu, HI 96817
Ph: 808-768-3090
Fax: 808-768-3099"

Really? They need to be WILLING??? Should I push it or just let it go? I feel confident the remains are Peter, why wouldn't they want to identify him so they could move forward and do a murder investigation?

 

[BOESP]

I'm still watching Truman. If you think pushing will help then push. I'd guess there are so many new homicides on the table that this case isn't a priority. Maybe Hawaii's statutes are different but I don't think DNA testing can be forced.

 

[Truman]

Thanks BOESP, glad you're still here! I'll keep you posted....

 

[indicajane]

I have a family member of peterboy as a fb friend. A maternal uncle.
Do you think that would work? If he was willing?

 

[LarkBunting]

What a sad, horrible story...poor little boy!
They won't give a DNA sample? Hmm...that seems fishy to me. Maybe they don't want the body ID'ed b/c then, LE might start investigating them.