Daughter pleads guilty to incest
DUNCAN — A woman who married her mother has pleaded guilty to incest and been put on probation.
Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Stephens County District Court to the felony charge.
She was sentenced to 10 years of probation and ordered to get counseling. She also must pay a $1,000 assessment, a $991 fee and court costs.
Misty Spann and her mother, Patricia Ann Spann, 44, married in Lawton in March 2016 and lived together in Duncan, records show.
The two were charged in September 2016 after a DHS child welfare worker learned of the relationship and reported it to Duncan police. The incest charge against the mother is still pending.
The marriage was annulled last month after a judge concluded the mother had induced her daughter "by fraud to enter the marriage."
In her request for the annulment, Misty Spann complained her mother claimed to have "consulted with three separate attorneys who advised there would be no problem with the marriage."
The mother told the DHS worker she "had looked into it" and felt no laws had been violated "because her name was no longer listed on Misty's birth certificate," police reported.
The mother explained to the DHS worker that she had lost custody of her daughter and two sons years ago, police reported. She said she and Misty "hit it off" after being reunited in 2014.
Police did not explain in court affidavits why the worker from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services was questioning the mother other than that it was "during the course of a child welfare investigation."
The outcome of the daughter's case was the result of a plea agreement. Her probation is the type known as a deferred sentence. She will not have a criminal conviction for incest if she completes her probation successfully.
The mother has pleaded not guilty. Her criminal case has been delayed to January so she can undergo surgery, records show.
Police reported that the mother also married one of her sons in 2008. That marriage was annulled in 2010, records show.