Mother who 'made sex tape with son, 16,' pleads no contest - but will only spend four YEARS in prison (and could be out in two)



Mistie Atkinson, 32, pleaded no contest to several counts against her



The California mother who was caught having sex with her 16-year-old son plead no contest to the counts against her.



Mistie Atkinson, 32, pleaded ‘no contest’ to a litany of charges, including incest and oral copulation with a minor.

The Napa Valley Register reported that the plea has the same legal standing as making a plea of ‘guilty.’

She could be sentenced to as many as four years and eight months in state prison, but could be out in as little as two years and four months for good behaviour.



Atkinson reportedly had no contact with her son until last year when she began sending him inappropriate messages on the social networking site.



The boy was living with his father at the time. Atkinson did not have custody rights to her son.

Police said the teen had videos on his cell phone that showed his mother performing oral sex on him.

They also recovered nude photographs Atkinson had sent her son as she began the illicit relationship earlier this year.

'It appears she hadn't had any contact with the son for 15 years' a source told the New York Daily News .



'She contacted him late last year via Facebook and was sending him messages inappropriately.'

The sexual contact began after police began responding to domestic violence reports between Atkinson and her boyfriend, with whom she lives in Nice, California.



The teen was aware that Atkinson was his biological mother.

Court records do not reveal how much contact the teen had with his mother before they began their affair.

But investigators said Atkinson had no custody rights to the boy.

'Atkinson and the victim are aware they are biological mother and son,' investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit.

Atkinson and the teen were found in a motel room in Ukiah, California, on March 2nd.

The young mother was sending her son illicit pictures of herself

She was booked into the Napa County Jail and charged with incest, oral copulation of a minor, contact with a minor for a sexual offense and sending harmful matter to a minor.

Police said in a court filing that videos captured from the boy’s phone show Atkinson allegedly performing oral sex and engaging in sexual intercourse with the teenager.

The time coded videos were dated Feb. 3 and Feb. 4.

Atkinson is also alleged to have sent nude pictures of herself to the boy from her cell phone.

She also allegedly exchanged sexually explicit messages with the teenager and they talked about running away together, court documents stated.

Atkinson is being held in jail on bail of $200,000

Court records show that the father of the boy has obtained a restraining order against Atkinson.

The alleged incest mirrors a case three years ago when Aimee Louise Sword, of Waterford. Michigan, used the Internet to track down a son she had given up for adoption when he was a toddler.

The pair began a sexual relationship that reportedly went on for several months before the boy's legal guardians found out.

Sword pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to a minimum of 9 years in prison.