A Modern Day "Ma Barker"Posted: 5 months ago by suebe Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her 12- and 14-year-old sons 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. Comments: 0 Score: [-] 169 [+].