Stepmom is missing-boy focus

PORTLAND, Ore. - A judge has barred the stepmother of a missing 7-year-old Portland boy from contact with her children and from access to firearms, further isolating her from the investigation into Kyron Horman's disappearance.

The boy's father, Kaine Horman, filed for divorce Monday from Terri Moulton Horman, citing "irreconcilable differences," and requested a restraining order, which was granted shortly after by a judge in Portland.

The two were married in April 2007.

According to court documents made available yesterday, the father had a new, undisclosed address as of three days earlier.

The restraining order was requested under terms of Oregon's Family Abuse Prevention Act. That document remained sealed yesterday.

Terri Moulton Horman and her estranged husband have a 19-month-old daughter, and she also has a teenage son from a previous marriage.

Investigators have not named Terri Horman as a suspect in the Kyron's disappearance. They have said she's the last person known to have seen him before he vanished June 4.

Although she and the boy's father put up a united front for the first three weeks, that has changed. A statement in support of the investigation was released Monday, but it was signed only by Kaine Horman, the boy's mother Desiree Young, and her husband, Tony Young.