Monica Mares, the sick mother who had an notorious incestuous relationship along with her organic son, went on to grow to be a homeless addict — with mugshots exhibiting her terrifying bodily decline.
The mother of seven was 36 when she was charged with incest in August 2016 for her disturbing relationship with then-19-year-old son Caleb Paterson — who has additionally had a string of arrests since their break up.
Within the 10 years since that arrest, the disgraced mother’s life spiralled — with a mugshot from a July 2020 arrest exhibiting her gaunt face grimacing with a shaved head.
“She reduce her hair. She is bald. I don’t know why,” Mares’ mom, Sadie Baker, 75, informed the Each day Mail from her house in Albuquerque.
“She is mad at herself, I assume. She misplaced a lot of weight now. She is now all the way down to lower than 100 kilos.”
Mares married one other man, Joe Garza, in November 2018, however the marriage didn’t final lengthy.
In 2020, she unintentionally began a yard hearth whereas allegedly excessive on meth and was charged with negligent arson, in line with a prison grievance.
Mares informed officers she was “coming down off a excessive from yellow meth,” and had been awake for a number of days, the grievance states.
In the end, the fees have been dismissed after she was deemed unfit to face trial.
Employees at a neighborhood homeless shelter say the mother is seen drifting out and in a number of instances per week, wandering the streets in filthy garments, and refusing meals or shelter.
“She is at all times within the streets with previous footwear. She is absolutely [psychotic]. She by no means desires a clear outfit,” Debbie, from the Mission Lighthouse shelter, informed the Each day Mail.
“I want we may also help her. I do know her story. It is vitally unhappy. It’s true it occurred. She by no means knew him [her son]. She birthed him and he was gone. It’s a tragic story,” Debbie added.
“He was birthed after which gone, and 18 years he reveals up, finds his organic mom, and so they fell in love, and that’s what it’s,” Debbie stated.
Mares’ mom stated she begged her daughter to not start the incestuous relationship on the time, however insisted that her son had instigated the affair.
“Carlos [Caleb] was the one who made the primary transfer. I informed her it was loopy. I informed her don’t do that. However they went forward,” Baker stated, including that she wouldn’t permit Paterson into her home.
“I informed him it was not proper,” she stated.
Mares and Paterson have been discovered responsible of incest in March 2017 after getting into no-contest pleas in a Curry County courtroom.
They have been sentenced to 3 years’ probation and banned from contacting each other, successfully ending the connection.
When information of the connection turned public, Baker stated her daughter started receiving threats.
“Everybody received mad at her,” she stated, including that after a household house was burned down in a suspected arson assault, Mares admitted she had made “a mistake” to her mom.
“She began crying, saying she didn’t know what to do. I informed her, ‘You don’t take heed to your mommy. I informed you,’” Baker stated.
“Thank god they don’t don’t have any children,” she added.
Paterson relocated to Pueblo, Colorado, the place he gave the impression to be residing with relations and dealing as a handyman, and was in one other relationship as lately as 2024, his social media suggests.
He has spent the previous decade out and in of jail over offenses together with two DUIs, driving on a revoked license, probation violations, and visitors prices, courtroom information present.
On April 8 this yr, Paterson was arrested on prices of prison trespassing and prison mischief and was being held on a $5 million bond, in line with the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Division.
He additionally has an lively warrant tied to a separate 2024 case out of Clovis, in line with the reviews.
