In the wake of two separate but unacceptable incidents that both involved an adopted child in NYS, Jaliek (Boyd) Rainwalker the 12 year old from Greenwich, NY that disappeared on November 1, 2007 and Evan the 11 year old from Troy, NY that was found to have been mentally, physically and emotionally abused on May 10, 2008 over a period of time by his adopted mother. Fresh Anointing Ministries has answered the call to create change and needs the communities help and support to do so. There will be a panel of experts from several foster care and adoption agencies including the Dept. of Social Services to answer any questions the community may have. We have also invited our elected members of the NYS Senate, Assembly and Congress to hear from the citizens of NYS in hopes to gain their support in forming some kind of post-adoption oversight by government agencies for families who have adopted hard to place children that receive a monthly tax-free subsidy each month for the child’s care and improve resources and funding for post-adoption services in NYS.
HELP US FORM AND GET JALIEK’S LAW PASSED!!
“QUOTED WORD FOR WORD”
On December 6, 2007 Anya Tucker from News Channel 10 interviewed Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald. Stephen Kerr made a statement about the citizens of NYS “we have made a commitment to care for the children that NYS has thrown away, you go in the foster care system and you see kids who are abused by the State of NY, which means they are abused by the people of NYS, by the citizens of NYS who do not give the resources to the Dept. of social Services, who do not give these children a chance. I would like everybody watching to know that my wife and I committed to two children that the rest of you threw away.
(Report can be found at www. wten. com “Jaliek Searchers to Drain Dam, Stephen Kerr Speaks”)
On May 14, 2008 Subrina Dhammi from News Channel 13 interviewed Rensselaer Co. DSS Commissioner John Beaudoin. He stated, “ Child abuse is a community situation too. There’s a tendency to say its social services or whatever, but somebody, somewhere, somehow saw this child and somewhere, somehow they should have called.
(Report can be found at www. wnyt. com “Questions Surround Troy Abuse Case”)
(CPS had been called in both cases several times and CPS would call and let the families know the day and time they were coming)
For more information contact Fresh Anointing Ministries at (518) 271-8796 or
E-Mail us at faministries@gmail.com
If you are a parent who gave a child up for adoption in the State of NY we would like to hear from you and your feelings regarding the treatment of a child that could possibly be yours.
When you put your child up for adoption you are doing what’s best for your child but is the State?
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JALIEK’S STORY:
Jaliek (Boyd) Rainwalker – 12 Year-Old Missing Since November 1, 2007
Jaliek (Boyd) Rainwalker is a friendly, loving, attractive, intelligent and generous bi-racial child who was born to a drug addicted mother given up for adoption two days after he was born on the dining room floor of an aunts house, then shuttled through a series of seven foster homes before being adopted four years ago by Stephen Kerr and Jocelyn McDonald from the upstate New York town of Greenwich. They had decided to un-adopt him but had been told by the agency they adopted him from that that was not possible.
On November 1, 2007, after six days in a respite home, Jaliek was returned to his adopted father and has not been seen since. Kerr claims his son ran away with three gang members he met in the respite home. However, there were no gang members in that home, only honor students involved in school sports who did community service. Kerr and McDonald claimed their son was homicidal and suicidal, yet he had not had any therapy or meds in almost a year despite the fact that they were getting a tax-free subsidy of over $1500 a month and continue to receive the tax free subsidy even though Jaliek has been missing for nearly a year now.
Jaliek was home schooled and lived in a house that Kerr got a building permit to build as a garage Kerr and McDonald did not have a Certificate of Occupancy for this “house’ which has no electricity, no indoor plumbing and undrinkable well water. Jaliek was also only allowed to bathe once every two weeks. The two outhouses several yards from the house were falling apart and had no doors and at times when he was punished Jaliek was not allowed to use the outhouse and had to relieve himself in the woods. All five of their children (3 of their own and 1 adopted daughter and Jaliek who was adopted) slept in one bedroom that they shared with Kerr and McDonald. There are multiple reports of Kerr’s abuse of children.
The local police, State Police, FBI, Jaliek’s former foster families and Jaliek’s maternal grandparents all believe that Stephen Kerr harmed Jaliek on the way home that night. Stephen Kerr has been declared a “person of interest”. There has been no sign of Jaliek despite extensive searches by multiple law enforcement agencies, extended family members and hundreds of volunteers.
Kerr reported Jaliek missing from the empty house of his father Graham Kerr (a US diplomat in Romania) where he and Jaliek had been staying after McDonald made Jaliek and Kerr leave the family home. Before he contacted the police, Kerr took a shower and returned his rented movies to the video store. On November 7th, Kerr and McDonald hired an attorney. Since they reported him missing, they have not searched for their son, have been unwilling to cooperate with authorities and have moved out of state.
Details of the last six days he spent with the respite family, many of the facts and details known to the police and pictures of Jaliek and the house he lived in are available on a website created by the Find Jaliek Task Force at www. findjaliek. org.
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EVAN’S STORY:
Evan – 11 Year-Old Adopted Child Abused By Adopted Mother
Evan described by neighbors was a real pale, thin, unkempt child that often seemed lonely spending hours looking out his upstairs bedroom window. And described by his best friend as being really funny.
Sharmon S. Evans 51 of 714 4th Avenue in Troy, NY had been a foster parent in Rensselaer County for 20 years and had adopted Evan 10 years ago. After 10 years of malnourishment, mental and physical abuse causing injuries and bruising Evan decided he could not take it anymore on Mothers Day in May 2008. Before running away Evan went to say goodbye to his friend Evan stated, “I went to his friends because I was afraid of my adoptive mother and I wanted to say goodbye to my friend because I was running away”. It was then that the friend’s parents witnessed the bruises on Evan and took him to the police headquarters to file charges.
Evan was always locked in his room by the adoptive mother and she would a plastic gate with bells on it, a crowbar and a 14lb weight against the door so she would hear him if he opened it. She would not let him use the bathroom and made him wear diapers whenever he was home, he stated that recently he had diarrhea in his bed and his adoptive mother made him throw the mattress and blankets out into the side yard and made him sleep on the floor underneath the empty bed frame. Evan also reported “A few times I had to poop at night and didn’t want to fill my diaper. I couldn’t use the bathroom, so I would poop on the floor and put the rug over it, a few times my mother found it and made me eat the poop”.
A couple days before Evan decided to run away, he came home from school late and when he walked in the door and tried to put his book bag down his adoptive mother pushed him into the door and hurt his left arm and left bruises on it. Evan stated, “I’m used to having bruises though because she hits me almost every day. Sometimes she pushes my head against the wall and slaps me and punches me”. He was always hungry and sometimes stole to eat. He said that during his spring break, “She didn’t feed me at all, and I only got two cups of water a day.” Another boy who was also in Sharmon Evans care for some time would sneak him some food, “he would try and sneak me food through the crack in the door. He would save the Pringles and candy from the lunchables my mother gave him, and he would bring them to my room so I had something to eat”. The adoptive mother kept a calendar hung and would mark the days she would feed Evan.
Sharmon S. Evans, according to a criminal affidavit on file with Troy City Court was charged for “knowingly act in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental and moral welfare of a male child by pushing him causing an injury and for knowingly engaging in a course of conduct involving unsanitary living conditions, lack of proper sustenance, lack of personal hygiene and mentally degrading treatment over a period of several months.” The house at 714 4th Avenue in Troy was inspected by the police and code enforcement and deemed the house unsuitable for human occupancy and Sharmon, her daughter and her daughter’s child were forced to leave and the front door was padlocked by code enforcement and remains padlocked to this day.