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A South Carolinawoman facing an incest chargeallegedly left her husband to have a romantic relationship with her father, an investigator on the case tells PEOPLE.
Michael Polson, an investigator with the sheriff’s office, tells PEOPLE that Edwards “left her husband to be with him.”
Brown, says Polson, “admitted [the sexual relationship]. He said he felt that she was in love with him.”
Polson says that during Edwards’ childhood, her father was “in and out of her life.” He adds the two “have a troubled past, but she was 20 years old when she decided to do all this. She wasn’t a child.”
In October 2017, Polson says, Edwards “left her husband. She moved in with her father and then they got pregnant together in January 2018. They continued communicating until July, and then it ended. She started seeing another guy.”
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“She wanted [Brown] to stop and be her daddy,” Polson says. “She wanted [Brown] to be a father figure to her.”
According to Polson, the sheriff’s office has handled incest cases before, but this one is unique.
“It’s usually a victim saying a family member close to them forced sex on them. It’s rare to have one to say, ‘We had consensual sex and we got pregnant,’ ” Polson says.
“Anytime in an incest situation, sometimes the inside of the body doesn’t work right,” Polson says, citing doctors.
At the time of Edwards’ arrest, her father was in jail in another county on unrelated charges. He will be transferred to the Johnson Detention Center to face the incest charge in Laurens County when he is released. Edwards was released on $1,000 bond and has yet to enter a plea.
PEOPLE’s attempts to reach Edwards were unsuccessful. It is unclear whether she has retained an attorney who can comment on her behalf.
source: people.com
