Dad of Hawaii boy who vanished in 1997 is sentenced in death

 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, prosecutors said. The girl later saw her brother in a box, prosecutors said.

In 2005, then-state Human Services Director Lillian Koller released more than 2,000 pages of heavily redacted documents, detailing allegations of abuse suffered by Peter and his siblings at the hands of their father.

The case shows that more needs to be done to protect abused children, Roth said. The prosecutor said he plans to push for legislation that would require a judge to weigh in when parents with a history of abuse want to pull a child out of school. Peter had been taken out of school.

"This is not the final chapter," Roth said. "This is a time that we should be looking at what kind of changes we can make to the system."

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This story has been corrected to show that Jaylin Kema's name was misspelled Jayline.