..with teenage son
Aimee Sword, from Michigan, Detroit, had been receiving an annual update on the 14-year-old - including a photo - from his adoptive family after handing him over when he was a few days old.
The Oakland County Circuit Court heard that she turned to Facebook to track the teenager down when she failed to receive a new photo after he turned 14 in 2008.
'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,' said Mitchell Ribitwer, her lawyer.
'Aimee's searching for a reason why this happened. She can't understand it. She's going to get some counselling.'
Originally charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, the 36-year-old pleaded guilty to having sex with her biological son on one occasion.
Investigators, however, told the court the pair had sex once in a hotel and also at homes in the Waterford area of Detroit.
The situation came to light when the boy, now 16, talked about it to a counsellor who then went to the police.
'It's a very tragic case, and I'm concerned for the welfare of this young boy and what it may have done to his psyche and his future,' stated Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.
'It's the first time I've really seen something like that between a mother-son. But I have seen it, unfortunately, many times between a father-daughter.'
Sword, married and living with her husband and five children at the time of the events, was sentenced by Judge Daniel O'Brien to between nine and 30 years in prison.
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Aimee Sword, from Michigan, Detroit, had been receiving an annual update on the 14-year-old - including a photo - from his adoptive family after handing him over when he was a few days old.
The Oakland County Circuit Court heard that she turned to Facebook to track the teenager down when she failed to receive a new photo after he turned 14 in 2008.
'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,' said Mitchell Ribitwer, her lawyer.
'Aimee's searching for a reason why this happened. She can't understand it. She's going to get some counselling.'
Originally charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, the 36-year-old pleaded guilty to having sex with her biological son on one occasion.
Investigators, however, told the court the pair had sex once in a hotel and also at homes in the Waterford area of Detroit.
The situation came to light when the boy, now 16, talked about it to a counsellor who then went to the police.
'It's a very tragic case, and I'm concerned for the welfare of this young boy and what it may have done to his psyche and his future,' stated Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.
'It's the first time I've really seen something like that between a mother-son. But I have seen it, unfortunately, many times between a father-daughter.'
Sword, married and living with her husband and five children at the time of the events, was sentenced by Judge Daniel O'Brien to between nine and 30 years in prison.
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