{"id":97178,"date":"2017-04-06T02:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97178"},"modified":"2025-01-19T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T07:22:10","slug":"father-of-boy-missing-20-years-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/06\/father-of-boy-missing-20-years-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of boy missing 20 years pleads guilty to manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HONOLULU \u2014 The father of a Hawaii boy who went missing 20 years ago pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday in a deal with prosecutors that requires him to reveal the location of the child’s body.<\/p>\n

Peter Kema Sr. also entered a guilty plea to hindering prosecution and agreed to a 20-year prison sentence, with a mandatory minimum of six years and eight months if he helps authorities find the remains of his son, Peter Jr., who was 6 when he disappeared.<\/p>\n

If Kema doesn’t co-operate, prosecutors can ask for a 25-year term, Hawaii County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ricky Damerville said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis saga doesn’t end until we find that body,\u201d the prosecutor said after the hearing on the Big Island.<\/p>\n

Peter Kema didn’t provide those details in court Wednesday. He only responded \u201cyes\u201d when a judge asked if he recklessly caused the boy’s death by not getting him medical treatment.<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the boy known as \u201cPeter Boy,\u201d became the face of a campaign for missing and abused children. Posters and bumper stickers asked, \u201cSo where’s Peter?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kema and his wife, Jaylin, have long been suspects in the boy’s disappearance, but prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence to charge them until last year, when a grand jury indicted the couple on murder charges.<\/p>\n

Jaylin Kema pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the first official confirmation that the child was dead. In exchange for a one-year sentence with credit for time served, she agreed to waive her marital privilege and testify against her husband if he went to trial.<\/p>\n

She agreed to facts prosecutors laid out in court about abuse suffered by the boy, her failure to get him medical treatment and his eventual death.<\/p>\n

In 1996 and 1997, extended family members were concerned that the boy’s father was abusing him. An arm injury was left untreated until there was a hole so deep someone could put a finger inside it, Damerville said last year.<\/p>\n

Despite having health insurance, Jaylin Kema didn’t get her son medical treatment and didn’t report the abuse because she was afraid of her husband, Damerville said.<\/p>\n

Sometime between May and June 1997, the couple’s then 4-year-old daughter heard Jaylin Kema calling out for her husband and saw her trying to resuscitate the boy. The girl later saw her brother in a box, Damerville said.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors believe the boy died from septic shock from not getting medical care. They do not believe Jaylin Kema knows the location of the body.<\/p>\n

Peter Kema told authorities that he took his son from the Big Island to Oahu and gave him to someone named \u201cAunty Rose Makuakane\u201d in an informal adoption.<\/p>\n

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Police could not find a woman as described by Kema or airline records that indicated he had flown there.<\/p>\n

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Four years ago, Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney Mitch Roth vowed to give the cold case a fresh look. Roth said he knew that without a body, prosecuting the couple would be difficult.<\/p>\n

A turning point came when Kema’s wife agreed to testify against him, Roth said.<\/p>\n

Roth was in court Wednesday sitting next to Peter Boy’s maternal grandfather.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we’ll know the truth,\u201d Roth said. \u201cIt answers the question for the public: Where is Peter Boy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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