How Could You? Hall of Shame-Dawud McKelvin UPDATED

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From New York City, Dawud McKelvin, 30, preyed on a ten-year-old foster child living in a group home. First, the girl and her sisters were placed into the care of her grandmother after her mother was arrested for drug use. Then, the grandmother was arrested and they were placed into the care of a foster home. It was at the group home that the 10-year-old  met Dawud McKelvin.

“”The [foster parent] let her sit on the front of the building by herself and that’s how she met him,” Agostini [the grandmother] said. “I guess he was walking by and approached her.”

Four months after the grandmother was arrested, the charges were dropped and the girls returned to living with the grandmother.

“The granddaughter – then just 10 – was secretly seeing McKelvin, who, cops say, preyed on her sexually.

“He threatened her, told her that if she ever told us about him he would kill me, her mother and her siblings,” Agostini said. “He had her manipulated very well. He bent her mind.”

It went on for months – until Sept. 14, when the girl failed to come home from school.

Police were called, and helicopters searched from the sky while K-9 unit dogs sniffed Dumpsters.”

“”David,” as the girl calls McKelvin, lured her into a car and “took me,” she said. “He called me the day before and asked me if I wanted to come live with him.”

She was taken to an apartment on W. 110th St. in Manhattan, where she was raped several times by McKelvin’s cousin, Lee McKelvin, 37, court papers say.

From there, the youngster said, she was taken to the lower East Side, where she was held by a man named Frankie and two women named Tiny and Jenna.” There she was pimped out to 5 or 6 men. She was able to escape after five days after calling her grandmother.

“Cops zeroed in on Dawud McKelvin, who had sent explicit photos of himself to Agostini’s cell phone.

He was charged with aggravated harassment but denied knowing the girl’s whereabouts.

After she escaped, Dawud McKelvin was indicted on charges of rape and predatory sexual assault against a child and other crimes.”
“Lee McKelvin was indicted on charges of rape, criminal sexual assault and predatory sexual assault by a Manhattan grand jury.”

Sex slave at age 11, little girl bravely tells her horror tale to save others
[NY Daily News 5/1/11 by Mike Jaccarino, Rocco Parascandola, Kevin Deutsch and Melissa Grace]

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Update: “A Bronx child who survived a nightmarish ordeal that is sure to leave emotional scars for life has been reported missing again.

The 12-year-old, who was abducted a year ago and pimped out by a foster parent, was last seen by the grandmother she lives with on Wednesday at 7 a.m.

The grandmother, Yolanda Agostini, told police:

She was here and fine and then she was gone. Please, everyone, keep an eye out for her. Call the cops. We want her back.

The story of the child’s horrifying plight, reported in this column in May, generated more reader reaction than any other article to date. The ordeal began when the child was lured into a car by Dawud McKelvin, who ran the foster home she lived in in Hunts Point. He ultimately drove her to a sex den on the Lower East Side, where he forced her to perform sexual acts in exchange for money.

McKelvin was charged with rape and sexual assault. He is currently in jail awaiting trial. His cousin, Lee McKelvin, one of the men who performed sex acts on the child, has also been charged, withrape, criminal sexual assault, and predatory sexual assault.

The young victim and grandmother have both in counseling ever since the horrendous attack occurred. Now the grandmother once again is left to panic and play the waiting game.

Police report that the girl was wearing a turquoise halter dress and sandals and carrying a brown Coach bag. She is 5-feet-3 and weighs 170 pounds. Anyone with information is urged to call the New York Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (800-577- 8477).”

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[Examiner 8/19/12]

The victim has been identified as Sahara Boyd. See more of the story at Missing Children Wiki