Missing Boy's Mother Takes Polygraph Test

Although police have said 12-year-old Jalick Rainwalker - missing for ten days - has a history of being suicidal, his mother Jocelyn McDonald tells CBS 6 News she does not believe her son has killed himself. "I would think I would feel it in my heart or in my gut if he did," says McDonald.

McDonald says police asked her to take a polygraph test, which she agreed to, but that her husband, Stephen Kerr decided against taking. McDonald says her husband was willing to take such a test but at the time investigators were about to administer it, he changed his mind because of a question on a form asking whether he was in good physical condition.

According to McDonald, her husband told police he was not in good condition, having slept only seven hours during three days of looking all over for his son.

"This whole thing has been one huge nightmare after another," says McDonald, who claims police harassed her husband after he decided againt taking the polygraph test. She says Child Protective Services has removed her other children from her home. They are staying with relatives.

Rainwalker has been missing since November 1. His family says he likely ran away from home because he was no longer welcome in the small schoolhouse where he and several other students were home-schooled. His mother says he threatened to rape a 4-year-old child.

According to Dennis Smith, McDonald's father, the 4-year-old was somehow related to one of the students.

Smith's wife, Barbara Reeley, says the family is especially concerned because the temperature at night has been dropping, her grandson has no money that she knows of and no other friends or relatives in the area who might help him - and he's only twelve years old.

Smith and Reeley describe Rainwalker as a "troubled kid" who has lived with seven foster families and has threatened to kill his parents and himself.