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Our View: Dems should take it slow in Salem ... Prospect-area cow death likely not a wolf kill ... New cable fence stops out-of-control SUV ... Our View: Dems should take it slow in Salem ... Prospect-area cow death likely not a wolf kill ... Feds file bank-rob charges By DANI DODGE MailTribune.com By DANI DODGE Posted Feb. 5, 1998 @ 2:00 am Updated Dec 16, 2010 at 3:01 PM By DANI DODGE Posted Feb. 5, 1998 @ 2:00 am Updated Dec 16, 2010 at 3:01 PM » Social News Kids say mom did it because they're poor A 6-year-old said she and two of her siblings were in their mother's truck when Mom -- Cynthia Alice Lockinger -- put on a wig, stuck a gun in her purse and robbed a bank, according to an FBI affidavit. After the girl was placed in foster care, she explained to her foster mother that her mother robs banks because the family is so poor and they need money, the affidavit stated. Lockinger, 40, of Sprague River, appeared in U.S. District Court Tuesday to be informed of the federal armed bank robbery charge she faces and the possible penalties if convicted. Lockinger's long, strawberry-blond hair was matted, her eyes red and swollen. She entered the courtroom in handcuffs, chains on her ankles. In her hand she held a balled-up tissue. She was arrested Monday outside the Klamath County Courthouse on one count of armed bank robbery in connection with the holdup of Wells Fargo Bank in White City on Nov. 26, 1997. FBI officials said their investigation of Lockinger is continuing, but an affidavit filed with the court said the FBI had probable cause to believe that Lockinger also was involved in armed robberies at the Southern Oregon Federal Credit Union in Grants Pass on Jan. 23 and at the Bank of America, Pioneer Parkway Safeway Branch, Springfield, on Feb. 20. Lockinger faces a possible sentence of 20 years in prison for the single bank robbery charge. She was being held without bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled March 9. Lockinger's husband was incarcerated Monday on sexual abuse charges. On Tuesday, Michael Joseph Lockinger was arraigned in Klamath County Circuit Court on charges of first-degree sexual abuse and sexual penetration with a foreign object. He was being held in the Klamath County Jail on $25,000 bail. Oregon State Police Detective Josie Stanton, who arrested Michael Lockinger, said the charges involved crimes against a minor. Stanton also played a key role in identifying Cynthia Lockinger as a suspect in the robberies, according to court documents. Stanton knew Cynthia Lockinger because of interviews from her investigation. She identified Lockinger from a surveillance camera photograph taken during the White City bank robbery. This isn't the first time police have had contact with the Lockingers, Stanton said. Those living in the small rural community of Sprague River, about 20 miles northeast of Klamath Falls, said it was hard not to notice the Lockingers, and many in the community have had deep concerns about the children. Cathy Blanton, owner of the Sprague River Cafe across the street from the Lockingers' home at Second and Main streets, said that she had counted as many as eight children at the Lockingers'. They didn't attend school often. Some neighbors said that the young children would play outside in their underwear, even when snow was on the ground. One time when Blanton took one of the girls home after a bicycling accident, Cynthia Lockinger wouldn't move from where she was lying on the floor under blankets. There were no bandages in the house, Blanton said. It was the filthiest place I had ever been in in my life, she said. Dog feces, dirty clothes, dirty dishes everywhere in piles. ... It stunk. Despite the squalor, expensive items would show up there at times, such as brand-name playground equipment and a trampoline, neighbors said. About three weeks ago, Michael Lockinger tried to sell the house to Rob Kincaid, a clerk at Whispering Pines, a gas station and store up the road. Kincaid said Lockinger appeared unstable, sometimes speaking in a German-sounding accent, other times without an accent. He said Cynthia Lockinger would wander around with a blank expression, not responding to people around her. At least three of the Lockingers' children, all under the age of 10, were placed in foster care in the second week of February. According to the court affidavits, the 6-year-old said the children weren't allowed in the back seat of the family's 1996 Chevrolet sports utility vehicle when Mom was robbing banks. That's where the gun with real bullets was kept, she told detectives. At home, the gun was kept in the attic, where the bats are. 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