Police trying
to locate mysterious
Auntie Rose
A missing child
By Rod Ohira
from the Big Island allegedly
was given to the woman
Star-BulletinBig Island police are seeking documents about Auntie Rose Makuakane, the woman a Big Island man says he gave his missing 6-year-old son to last year at Aala Park.
Although a check of vital statistics failed to confirm the identity of such a person, the investigation in Honolulu turned up information that indicates a Rose Makuakane of Aala Park did exist in the early 1980s, a source said.
Big Island investigators are trying to confirm where Makuakane is if she is still alive, or when she died.
Peter Kema told police he took his son, Peter Jr., to Honolulu in August 1997 and placed him in Makuakane's care.
The boy has not been seen by relatives since December 1996 and Big Island police, at the request of state social workers, opened a missing persons investigation in January.
Peter and his wife, Jaylin, are not cooperating with investigators.
"We're extremely concerned that we have not located the child at this time and that the information we've been given cannot be confirmed," said police Capt. Morton Carter, commander of the Big Island's Criminal Investigation Division.
Carter declined comment when asked to confirm reports that police have been unable to find any documentation that Kema Sr. and his son traveled to Honolulu in August 1997.
