Mom of Accused Child Killer Says Son Poses No Danger to Others

March 3, 2009— -- The tapes were damning -- a then-8-year-old Arizona boy confesses to shooting his father and a family friend, pausing to reload in between shots.

Even though the tapes have been ruled inadmissible in any court case, the boy's mother says she's "in shock" that her son's lawyers are allowing the now-9-year-old to plead guilty to negligent homicide without her consent.

The mother describes her son as a little boy who still comes to her in the middle of the night when he is scared by nightmares.

The boy's guilty plea has surprised many in the legal community.

In an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America," Eryn Bloomfield said her son did not know what he was agreeing to when he pleaded guilty and he did not understand the concepts of probation or Miranda rights.

"The main thing that he actually was able to understand was that he was going to be with me," she said.

The boy's lawyers have insisted that they handled the case properly.

"He has to make the decision of how he wants to proceed," the boy's attorney Ron Wood told "Good Morning America" last month. "As long as we're going to continue to prosecute children they're going to have to make that decision. ... That's what my young client wanted to do."

The boy was charged with the Nov. 5 murders of his father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero, and Romero's friend 39-year-old Timothy Romans, allegedly using a .22-caliber rifle.

The boy is now home, living with Bloomfield, and is not allowed to enroll in any public, private or charter school until authorities determine that he does not pose a threat to himself or others.

"I was horrified," Bloomfield said of that ruling. "Part of being a child is being able to be around other people and being in school."

She's also upset authorities believe her son would be a threat to society or himself.

"I know that because I've been with him since this happened and he has not posed a threat to anybody or himself," she said.

Child Killer: 'Then I Reloaded It'

Bloomfield said she has not yet asked her son about the day he allegedly killed two people because she fears she'd be called to testify in court about what he told her.

But, she said, her son continues to say that he loved his father.

"Nothing's changed," she said. "He loves his dad, and he always will."

Though the confession has been deemed unusable because no guardian or lawyer was present, the boy can be heard telling police how he got his gun and fired it.

"I went upstairs, and then I saw my dad, and then I got the gun, and then I fired it at my dad," the boy said in the video. "He was on the ground, and then I reloaded it."

"He's actually seeing a counselor now and I do believe that's doing a lot of good," Bloomfield said.

While home-schooling has been put on hold until a tutoring program is set up, her son is playing with cousins and relatives, though not with any friends.

Bloomfield said that her son has had nightmares since that day and that he sometimes comes to her in the middle of the night.

"Other times I go to him," she said, "just to comfort him."