NAPA — A woman from Nice who was convicted for acts of incest with her biological son, 16, at the time, was sentenced Wednesday in Napa County Superior Court.
Mistie Rebecca Atkinson, 32, was sentenced to serve four years and eight months in state prison.
Atkinson was arrested in April in a motel room with her biological son, according to area law enforcement.
In October relatives contacted law enforcement to report inappropriate Facebook activity from the boy”s biological mother, with whom he previously had limited contact.
Reports indicate Atkinson had not seen her son since he was a toddler. She materialized by way of Facebook when the boy was a teen.
Atkinson pleaded no contest to incest, oral copulation, lewd contact with a minor and distribution of lewd material to a minor.
According to The New York Daily News, Atkinson told the court that she didn”t commit incest because she thought the crime could be classified as a phenomenon called “genetic attraction.”
The Napa Valley Register reported Atkinson writing in a statement, “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.”
Atkinson has a history of contact with law enforcement, including domestic violence calls involved with the residence in Nice.
The father of the boy has custody and had obtained a restraining order against Atkinson.
