Cold Hearted!

I heard news the other day that Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald were planning on moving to Vermont but hadn’t found it in writing until today.  Just when you think they couldn’t possible care any less than they do, they go and prove you wrong!  If your child is missing and you believe that they are still alive, as Kerr and McDonald do, then you don’t just pick up and move! 

For the sake of argument, let’s say that Jaliek is still alive and he ran away.  He out there on his own, probably afraid to come home because of what he has done.  Let me stress that this is a hypothetical.  Jaliek decides to come home one day only to find that his adoptive family isn’t there, they moved out of state.  How would that make a child, who already has emotional problems, feel? 

This act is as cold as it gets!  Aside from murder that is. 

Here’s the article from Capital News 9:

Jaliek’s parents moving out of state

GREENWICH, N.Y. – There is yet another twist in the Jaliek Rainwalker case. Rainwalker’s adoptive parents are now in the process of moving out of the state.

Police confirm that Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald have put a bid on a house in West Rupert, Vermont, which is right across the Vermont-New York border.

They had been living in a home in East Greenwich, but most recently had been staying in Kerr’s father’s house on Hill Street in the Village of Greenwich.

Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said he has received calls from people in Rupert expressing concern that the couple and their children plan on moving into their neighborhood. He said he received a call from the woman who owns the house as well, expressing her concern.

Kerr was named a person of interest in the case on Monday because he was the last person to see Jaliek alive, and police said he has been uncooperative with them in their investigation.

He has refused two lie detector tests and will not give police access to his father’s van, which he was driving the night Jaliek disappeared. Police want the van to try and match it to a van shown in a bank surveillance video back on the night Jaliek disappeared.

Calls out to Kerr and McDonald have not been returned. 

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?SecID=33&ArID=229791

Psychics in search for boy

“Intuitives” fail to turn up new information in Jaliek Rainwalker case

Three psychics joined the search for 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker last week, but information they offered officials about the missing boy failed to best anything offered by basic police science.

According to relatives, two of the psychics, or “intuitives” as they prefer to be called, had similar visions of where Rainwalker’s body might be, which led to a meeting with police, relatives, a third psychic and searchers last Thursday.

The group visited wooded sites in Greenwich not far from the Cossayuna home Rainwalker shared with his adoptive parents and four siblings.The search turned up nothing.But it highlights the fact that 10 weeks since the boy was last seen, police still have virtually no clue as to where Rainwalker, missing since Nov. 1, might be.

“If someone contacts us and says they have a vision, and it fits in to where we believe (Rainwalker) might be, and we have someone who can go with them, yes, we’ll do a search,” said George Bell, chief of the Greenwich-Cambridge Police Department, who is in charge of the Rainwalker investigation. He readily admits his frustrations with the case.

Elaine Person, who has provided respite care for the emotionally troubled Rainwalker and saw him a day before he disappeared, said she appreciates any help she can find. She defended the use of psychics.

“I like to keep an open mind,” she said. “When you have a child who is missing, you owe it to that child to use every resource at your disposal,” she said. “And, who’s to say that maybe people have access to a kind of information that the rest of us don’t have?”

So many psychics have been contacting Rainwalker’s relatives and police that the Web site about the search, www.findjaliek.org, includes a link inviting intuitives to contact them by e-mail.

Meanwhile, Rainwalker’s adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, is trying to move the family to West Rupert, Vt., about 10 miles east of their Washington County home. That information was reported by WNYT NewsChannel 13 and confirmed by Bell, who said he has been speaking with Kerr daily for the last several weeks.

Someone who answered Kerr’s cellphone on Thursday said Kerr was not available to talk.

Rainwalker went missing after spending the night of Nov. 1 alone with Kerr at Kerr’s father’s home in Greenwich. Kerr’s father, Graham, was out of the country at the time.

Rainwalker, who has a long history of emotional problems and outbursts, had just spent five days with Elaine and Tom Person of Altamont, who cared for Jaliek for several days at a time to provide respite to the family.

The relationship had grown so stressful, in fact, that Kerr and wife Jocelyn McDonald were planning to undo their adoption of Rainwalker at the time he disappeared. It’s not clear how far along they were in that process the night of Nov. 1.

When Kerr awoke Nov. 2, he said he found a note in Rainwalker’s handwriting, in which he apologized for hurting people. Kerr said the note is proof his son ran away from home. Elaine Person believes the note was a homework assignment Rainwalker completed while at her house. Rainwalker had to apologize for allegedly making a sexually explicit threat to a 4-year-old in the family’s home-school group.

Kerr has said he believes that his son is living with an “African-American gang or family” in Albany, Schenectady or Troy. Rainwalker is biracial and has always been fascinated with black culture, said Kerr, who is white. Police said there is no evidence to support Kerr’s theory.

On Monday, Bell and State Police investigators announced Kerr is a person of interest in the case, though there is not enough evidence to charge Kerr with a crime. Police said they have an image from a surveillance camera that captured the image of a van similar to one Kerr was driving on the night of Rainwalker’s disappearance. Police want to re-examine the van but Kerr has denied their request.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=656294&TextPage=2