Oregon Mom Charged With Killing 12 Year Old Son

The mother of a 12-year-old boy has been charged with murder after authorities found the preteen boy’s body in a Oregon apartment.

Keizer police and fire personnel arrived first and found the boy, identified as Caden Berry, dead inside the apartment.

The boy’s mother, identified as 38-year-old Amy M. Robertson, was also at the scene and cooperated with police when they arrived. She was taken into custody and remains cooperative, authorities said. She faces a charge of aggravated murder and was booked into the Marion County Correctional Facility on Sunday morning without bail.

Neighbors who spoke with media didn’t want to be fully identified, but said Berry was well-liked. They said they were immediately concerned when they heard Robertson yelling in the courtyard and he was nowhere to be seen.

“His mom just came out here yelling,” one neighbor said. She was reportedly swinging her arms around and said something about demons to another neighbor. Though it wasn’t immediately clear to them what was wrong, the teen was noticeably absent.

“I went out there and told her to calm down. She said, ‘OK,'” a neighbor told the media. “I said, ‘Where’s your son?’ She said, ‘In the house under the blanket.’ So I went into his room. He wasn’t in there.”

As she searched further, she found the boy in the living room.

“There was a recliner tipped over and he was halfway on it under a blanket,” she said. “I pulled the blanket back and I could tell he was gone.”

The neighbor said Berry wasn’t breathing and was cold. His head was laying on the arm of the up-turned recliner, covered with a blanket.

“I tried to wake him up, and he wouldn’t wake up. So I ran out and yelled to call an ambulance.”

When the neighbor did that, Robertson reportedly said, “I told you not to move the blanket.”

One of his young friends in the complex said there may have been warning signs earlier this week. “He just wasn’t acting right,” Berry’s friend told reporters.

“He was, like, always happy and he was never really, like, sad. Until yesterday. He looked really sad and he was, like, a really close friend.”