The California mom who re-connected with her estranged son, only to begin an incestuous relationship with him, has been officially sentenced. The stinger is that the woman doesn’t consider her illicit relationship with her son incest. She says it’s “genetic attraction.”

Rewind. In case you forgot the story, Inquisitr reported in May that Mistie Atkinson, 32, tracked down her estranged 16-year-old son on Facebook last year. The two were found in a hotel room on March 2nd engaged in incestuous activity. Police found nude photographs of the mother on the boy’s cell phone, including photos of her performing oral sex on him. Other text messages between the two indicated that they had planned to run away together. Atkinson was booked into the Napa County Jail and charged with incest, oral copulation of a minor, contact with a minor for sexual offense, and sending harmful matter to a minor.

For her troubles? Four years and eight months in prison, as handed down Wednesday in Napa County Superior Court.

Atkinson pleaded no contest to the charges leveled against her, and seemed to only take issue with one small detail – she doesn’t consider her sexual relationship with her son incest. “I don’t feel like I should have the charge of incest because there is something called genetic attraction that is a very powerful (phenomenon) that happens to 50 (percent) of people becoming reunited with a long-lost relative,” she wrote.

You know how they say that most statistical references are made up on the spot? There’s actually some truth to the one that Atkinson uses to defend herself. ABC’s Good Morning America ran a segment about genetic sexual attraction last month. This could be what Atkinson is referring to in her note. Although there isn’t any real scientific research into the subject, some psychologists say that biological family members who have been separated for a long period of time risk becoming sexually attracted to one another when they reunite, reports NY Daily.

Scientific backing or not, still gross.

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A mother was found in a hotel room in Ukiah, California, on March 2nd, performing sex acts on her teenage son, and has subsequently been charged with incest. Videos of the two engaging in sexual intercourse were also found in the hotel room.

Police have also said that the 16-year-old had videos on his cell phone of his mother, 32-year-old Mistie Atkinson, performing oral sex on him. Also recovered from the cell phone, nude photographs of the boy’s mother dating back to the beginning of this year, when the incestuous affair allegedly began.

The boy’s identity can’t be disclosed due to the fact that he’s a minor, but a few facts are known about him. Specifically, that he lives with his biological father, who has sole custody. Second, that he was aware that Atkinson was his biological mother during the course of the affair. ‘Atkinson and the victim are aware they are biological mother and son,’ said the arrest affidavit, but court records don’t say how long the two were in contact before the affair began.

Atkinson was booked into the Napa County Jail and charged with incest, oral copulation of a minor, contact with a minor for sexual offense, and sending harmful matter to a minor. She’s being held on bail of $200,000, and the boy’s father has secured a restraining order against her. In addition to the photographs and the videos, court documents also mention the exchange of sexually explicit messages between the two, alleging that they had planned to run away together.

The alleged incest is eerily familiar to a case dating back three years, when Aimee Louise Sword, of Waterford. Michigan, tracked down a son she had given up for adoption when he was a toddler. They finally met, but instead of a happy ending involving tears and reconciliation, they also started an incestuous relationship that carried on for several months until the boy’s guardians found out. Sword plead guilty to third-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to a minimum of 9 years in prison.

At her hearing, she said that she would seek counseling, and that she didn’t understand why she behaved the way she did.

Gross.

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