MySpace.com - HELP FIND JALIEK!!! - 21 - Male - Greenwich, New York

GREENWICH -- When Jaliek Rainwalker disappeared, his parents had already decided to undo their adoption of him, family and police confirmed Thursday. The last person to see him was his adoptive father, Stephen Kerr, who spent the night alone with him at a relative's unoccupied home in Greenwich, those close to the case have said. Rainwalker, 12, was prone to violent outbursts, and his four siblings were afraid of him, said Barbara Reeley, the mother of Jocelyn Kerr, Rainwalker's adoptive mother. His serious emotional problems caused him to fly into uncontrollable rages in the five years he lived with his adoptive family in Cossayuna, Washington County, Reeley said. On Oct. 31, Stephen Kerr picked his son up from a several-days stay at a respite home -- where parents can leave emotionally troubled children for a break from constant turmoil. Rainwalker was scheduled to go to another respite home that Friday. Kerr volunteered to take Rainwalker to the empty house at 11 Hill St. in Greenwich, which is owned by Kerr's father, Graham. The next morning, Kerr said he found Rainwalker missing but that his son had left a goodbye note, which said he no longer wanted to be a burden on his family. The parents, both 37, already had decided to place Rainwalker in another home. But it wasn't clear this week what legal steps they had taken to reverse the adoption or what Rainwalker knew of the plans. "It's true that he wasn't happy in his home and that his parents no longer wanted him there," said Reeley, a potter who lives in Wynantskill. "If he hadn't disappeared, he would have been living in another home by Thanksgiving," Reeley said. She said that Jocelyn McDonald had tried very hard to help Rainwalker, but a recent threat the boy made to a young child in their home-school group proved to be the last straw. Rainwalker, his grandmother said, never adjusted to the unusual family life of the Kerrs. The family's house has no running water, and each morning the older children take turns bringing water to the house from an outdoor well. The bathrooms are outhouses and the only electricity comes from a generator for several hours in the evening. It's not poverty, but a desire to be ultra eco-friendly that inspired their lifestyle, Reeley said. It was a huge adjustment from homes that Rainwalker had grown accustomed to, more mainstream households where life included regular trips to the mall and computer games. "What my daughter and son-in-law did give him was a lot of love. There was always love and affection and hugs," she said. But Rainwalker never seemed to accept it, she said. And combined with his existing emotional problems from years in many different foster homes, it was too much for him to handle, she said. Greenwich-Cambridge Police Chief George Bell confirmed that family members had told investigators that they were looking for a new home for Rainwalker at the time of his disappearance. But he declined to be specific about the investigation. He said the first priority is to find Rainwalker. Police continued their search for Rainwalker in the woods near the Battenkill Country Club in Greenwich and Easton. On Monday, police drained a pond at the country club's golf course but turned up nothing. Jocelyn Kerr has taken a polygraph test but Stephen Kerr has not, Bell said. He wouldn't say what the results of Jocelyn Kerr's test were, or why her husband has not taken one. A prayer vigil is scheduled for 7 tonight at Mowry Park in Greenwich. Rainwalker is not currently taking any medications, but should not be considered a danger to approach, police said. He is described as a light-skinned black boy, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 105 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. He may be wearing blue jeans and a yellow fleece.

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