A Woman Uses a False Name to Marry Her Daughter After Being Convicted of Incest for Marrying Her Son

The relationship was discovered during a child welfare inspection that also uncovered an earlier marriage annulled by incest.

An unusual court case has shocked the state of Oklahoma and reopened the debate on the legal and moral limits of family relations in the United States. Patricia Ann Spann, 43, and her biological daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, were arrested after being found to have married in March 2016, in violation of state laws prohibiting incest. Stephens County authorities in Duncan City proceeded to arrest both women following a child welfare inves…