A 26-year-old Oklahoma woman was sentenced to 10 years of probation this week, after admitting to engaging in an incestuous relationship with her 44-year-old biological mother.
Patricia Ann Spann lost custody of her daughter and two sons when they were kids, who were then adopted and raised by their paternal grandmother.
She reunited with her daughter Misty in 2014 and says the two of them ‘hit it off’ and started talking about adopting a child together.
They married in March 2016, after Patricia convinced her daughter that they weren’t violating the law.
But indeed they were, and just a few months later, in September 2016, the two were charged with incest after a DHS child welfare worker discovered the relationship.
Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26 (left), was sentenced to 10 years of probation this week, after admitting to engaging in an incestuous relationship with her 44-year-old biological mother, Patricia Ann Spann (right)
In Oklahoma, incest is a felony crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Misty decided to take a plea deal, admitting to the relationship in exchange for a lighter sentence.
In addition to spending 10 years on probation, the judge also ordered her to undergo counseling and pay various court fees.
Patricia has pleaded not guilty to the charge, but has not yet appeared in court yet.
Her case has been delayed to February so that she could undergo surgery.
Patricia and Misty’s relationship was discovered by the Department of Human Services last year during a child welfare investigation inside their home in Duncan
Authorities said Patricia Spann told investigators she had lost custody of her daughter and two sons, who were adopted and raised by their paternal grandmother
What’s perhaps most shocking of all is that this isn’t the first time Patricia has been caught in a romantic relationship with one of her children.
She also married one of her sons, Jody Calvin Spann, in 2008.
KSWO reports that Patricia told investigators her relationship with her son was not sexual and she married him to prevent him being deployed to the military.
That marriage was annulled two years later by the son, on the basis that it was incestuous.
Patricia and Misty’s marriage was also annulled last month at the behest of Misty, who said she was induced ‘by fraud to enter the marriage’.
Patricia has pleaded not guilty to the charge of incest. Her trial has been pushed to February so she can undergo surgery
She says she only consented to getting married after her mother convinced her it was legally OK, saying she consulted three attorneys.
Patricia says she actually did the research herself, and thought that it would be OK since she no longer has the same name as what was printed on Misty’s birth certificate.
Misty and Jody’s brother Cody Spann told KSWO that his mother manipulated both his sister and brother into marriage.
‘I think she’s worthless she put my sister into this. She forced my sister into this, there’s a lot of people that know it,’ he said.
‘For you to want to put your own daughter through this, what kind of person are you? If that’s what you want that’s on you, but none of us kids want that, and now you got my sister behind bars because of your choices, why don’t you let that sit on you as a mom.’
Misty and Jody’s brother Cody Spann (pictured) said his mother manipulated both his sister and brother into marriage