An Oklahoma mother and her boyfriend allegedly used a 14-year-old girl as a surrogate for twins — alarmingly telling police the teen “desperately wanted additional siblings,” according to authorities and reports.
Nathan Potier and Erica Palmer, both 36, were arrested on Tuesday after cops discovered the Oklahoma City couple wanted for sexually assaulting a teenage girl had been hiding out in Nevada, according to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.
The twisted couple was cuffed on outstanding warrants following an investigation that began last December when Child Protective Services received a report about a teen who was pregnant with twins, possibly by her mother’s boyfriend, according to cops and court documents obtained by KFOR.
In an alarming interview with Oklahoma City Police, Palmer allegedly told cops that her daughter “desperately wanted additional siblings,” the outlet reported.
The mother added that she wanted to personally have children with “her current boyfriend,” but couldn’t because her tubes were tied, the report said.
The mother denied allowing Potier to impregnate her daughter, who is now 15. But cops later obtained a search warrant for his DNA to determine paternity at the teen’s next doctor’s visit.
Before the test could be collected, the couple fled Oklahoma, police said.
The couple was later located in a “coordinated operation” and cuffed by members of the US Marshals Nevada Violent Offender Task Force after detectives discovered they were hiding in the Reno/Sparks area — over 1,000 miles away from Oklahoma City, police said.
Potier was charged with sexual assault of a child, and Palmer was charged with enabling the sexual abuse of a child, according to authorities.
Palmer, who appears to also use the surname Ramirez, has also been charged with two counts of desertion of a child under 15, court records show.
Potier and Palmer were brought to the Washoe County Detention Facility in Nevada and will be extradited to Oklahoma County to face charges, authorities added.
The teen’s due date was in late February, and she has since been placed in foster care, the outlet reported.