Kyron’s mom wants stepmother out of her comfort zone

ROSEBURG, Ore. - The mother of missing 8-year-old Kyron Horman said Saturday she’s tired of the boy’s stepmother living “comfortably” and asked the public to make her uncomfortable.

Desiree Young could have gotten more media exposure if she had held her news conference in Portland or at Kyron’s elementary school, but the mother of the missing boy said she wanted to make a point in the town Terri Horman has lived since moving there in July.

Young asked people who live in Roseburg to confront Terri Horman at the grocery store, on the street or at the gas station.

“We ask any time you see Terri, ask her, ‘Where’s Kyron?’”

Young has said she feels Horman knows something about Kyron’s disappearance and said, while her son has been missing for over eight months, his stepmother has been able to hand out candy to kids on Halloween and enjoy Christmas.

“Kyron’s story is not one of a child that wandered away from his school or was abducted by a stranger,” Young said. “It was somebody who was brought into our family. ... There is one person that knows where he is: Terri Horman, where is Kyron?”

Young, armed with volunteers and close friends, put up fliers and signs around Roseburg Saturday. The signs ask people to remember Kyron and encourage the public to ask Terri Horman where he is when they see her.

Young said not a day has gone by where she doesn’t think of her son and see his face and said she wants Horman to do the same.

She also said the word still needs to get out there that her son is missing.

“There’s been times I’ve driven through Roseburg on my trips, and they don’t recognize me. They don’t recognize Kyron. They haven’t heard about it. They don’t know about the case. That scares me.”

While Young and Kyron’s biological father, Kaine Horman, have been very outspoken since his disappearance, Terri Horman has never spoken with the media or anyone else publicly about Kyron’s disappearance.

Young went to Terri Horman’s house and knocked on the door before putting signs up around her home. Nobody answered, and a sign is still up referring people to call Horman’s lawyer.

“If I ever confronted her; if she would ever give me that chance, I would talk to her. And I would talk to her about the fact that Kyron never asked a thing of her except for her to love him,” Young said.

She said she wants Kyron to know she’ll never stop looking for him.

“I have to do this. I have to do it each and every day because if I don’t, who is going to?”

Phone calls to Horman and her attorney were not returned Saturday.

Kyron Horman disappeared from Skyline School in Northwest Portland June 4, 2010. Terri Horman has not been named a person of interest or suspect in his case but she has been the focus of the investigation.

Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton will appear before county commissioners Thursday to talk about the case.

Staton is expected to give an update on the status of the search but he won’t be asking for additional funding. The commissioners will be able to ask questions about the investigation.