Aimee L. Sword has plead guilty to committing incest with the son she gave up for adoption as an infant.

Ms. Sword was accused of having committed incest with her biological son in 2008 after having tracked him down via Facebook. She was upset when the adoptive parents did not send her the annual picture and update on the child she had given up for adoption when he was an infant. Using the popular social network, she tracked him down and began communicating with him via the site.

The boy was 14-years-old at the time of the contact, and Sword’s attorney, Mitchell Ribitwer told The New York Daily News, “When she saw this boy, something just touched off in her—and it wasn’t a mother-son relationship, it was a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.”

The boy’s parents became aware of the communications between Ms. Sword and her son, but not the nature of the relationship.  They gave permission to their son to visit her, and even spend the night at her home.  The nature of the relationship only became known when the boy told a counselor about what was transpiring.

In her guilty plea, Ms. Sword admitted to only one instance of sexual intercourse with her son, but the authorities claim there were multiple incidents including a hotel room and her home.  At the time of the incident(s), Ms. Sword was married with five other children ranging in age from toddlers to teens.

Ms. Sword has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, and will serve a minimum of nine years.

I will admit that in my original post, I wasn’t sold on the story as there seemed to be so little evidence, but apparently there was a lot more than we knew.