Woman led sons on crime spree
Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her sons, aged 12 and 14, and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the beating of a teenage boy who had nothing more than an orange lollipop.
Her motivation was purely financial – police said she needed money to pay rent and the loan on her gold Chevrolet. In every case, the mother drove the getaway car and once coached a child during a robbery because he was having trouble stealing a mobile phone from a victim, police said.
