PORTLAND — Kyron Horman’s mother reiterated her belief Friday that the stepmother of her missing son was responsible for his disappearance and warned the woman she will face consequences.
“This is not going to get any easier for you,” Desiree Young said at a news conference in a statement aimed at Terri Horman.
“The police will not stop until they find Kyron. You will go to jail. And whoever has been helping you will either have to talk or they will go to jail,” Young said.
Young was joined by her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, the father of the missing boy. They did not provide any evidence to explain the allegations.
Terri Horman has not been arrested or charged in the disappearance, and authorities have said she is not a suspect.
However, investigators have distributed fliers asking the public for any information about her whereabouts on the morning of June 4, the day she took Kyron to school and he vanished.
In addition, her divorce attorney Peter Bunch acknowledged in court papers filed for Horman this week that she is a “de facto suspect” at the center of a police investigation.
Terri Horman and her lawyer Stephen Houze did not return phone calls Friday seeking comment. Multnomah County sheriff’s Capt. Monte Reiser said he had nothing new to report on the case.
Kyron turns 8 in a couple of weeks, and his parents said they addressed the media to keep the investigation fresh in people’s minds.
“I want to stimulate the coverage,” Young said. “I want to get it focused on Kyron. I want to bring him home.”
Young and Kaine Horman have each appeared before a Multnomah County grand jury looking into the disappearance.
The case has dominated Portland news this summer, but much of the recent attention has been on the family saga involving Kaine Horman’s recent divorce from Terri Horman.
Kaine Horman filed for divorce a few weeks after his son vanished, saying in court papers that investigators had given him reason to believe his wife at the time was involved in the disappearance.
Since then, Kaine Horman and Young have repeatedly accused the stepmother of not telling detectives everything she knows about the disappearance.
The parents were asked Friday if they would hold a press conference to publicly apologize to Terri Horman if it turns out she had nothing to do with the disappearance.
“Of course, if we’re wrong,” Young said, adding, “We’re not.”
