Mom, daughter charged with incest after marrying in OklahomaDUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — A woman and her daughter are facing incest
charges after authorities learned the pair were legally married in
Oklahoma this year, and that the mother had married her son a few years
earlier.
The motivation behind the March marriage was unclear Wednesday, when 43-year-old Patricia Ann Spann
and her daughter, 25-year-old Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, made initial
appearances in Stephens County district court. Under Oklahoma law,
marrying a close relative is considered incest whether or not a sexual
relationship exists.
Neither woman had an attorney listed in court documents. No
publicly listed phone number could be found for their home in Duncan,
about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
According to a police affidavit, officers learned about the marriage
late last month amid a child welfare investigation. Patricia Spann told a
state child services investigator she'd lost custody of three children,
who were adopted by their paternal grandmother, but reunited with her
daughter two years ago. She said she thought a marriage was OK because
her name wasn't on her daughter's birth certificate, the affidavit
states.
Detectives later learned she married her son in 2008. He filed for an
annulment 15 months later citing "incest," stating he was married to
his birth mother, according to the affidavit.
Police didn't return a message seeking investigation details
following the women's court appearance. Both women were being held on
$10,000 bonds. 4951