--- title: Mom and Daughter Face Incest Charges After Getting Married description: A woman and her daughter were charged with incest after getting married in Oklahoma this year, authorities said canonical: https://time.com/4483323/mother-daughter-married-incest-charge/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-08T00:05:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:27:39.305Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Mother and Daughter Face Incest Charges After Getting Married in Oklahoma og:description: The mother had previously married her son og:url: https://time.com/4483323/mother-daughter-married-incest-charge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40b02230eb29b1ba/6988a52b97cdff6c706adb87/patricia-ann-spann-incest.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Patricia Ann Spann og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mother and Daughter Face Incest Charges After Getting Married in Oklahoma twitter:description: The mother had previously married her son twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt40b02230eb29b1ba/6988a52b97cdff6c706adb87/patricia-ann-spann-incest.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mother and Daughter Face Incest Charges After Getting Married in Oklahoma by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 8, 2016 12:05 AM CUT  Patricia Ann Spann Patricia Ann SpannStephens County Sheriffs Dept by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 8, 2016 12:05 AM CUT A woman and her daughter were charged with incest after getting married in Oklahoma this year, authorities said. Patricia Ann Spann, 43, and her daughter Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, were married in March, police learned last month while conducting a child welfare investigation. Authorities later found out Patricia Spann had married her son in 2008, who filed for annulment 15 months later citing “incest.” The motivation behind the marriages is unclear. Both women appeared in Stephens County district court on Wednesday, the [Associated Press](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/07/mom-daughter-charged-with-incest-after-getting-married-in-oklahoma.html "undefined") reported. Under Oklahoma law, marriage between close relatives is considered incest whether or not a sexual relationship exists. Patricia Spann told child service investigators that she had lost custody of three children, who were adopted by their paternal grandmother. She reunited with her daughter two years ago, the AP reported. Spann said she thought it was OK to marry her daughter because her name wasn’t on Misty Spann’s birth certificate. 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