Wisconsin has the best lunatic bible thumpers

Wisconsin has the best lunatic bible thumpers -
Badger_colorado Reputation:97 Level:Superstar Since:Jan 24, 2007
	May 9, 2008 11:12 pm Score: 94
	Yup, Wisconsin has the best of everything, including the following: (1) The best at storying dead bodies on toilets (2) The most lunatic bible thumpers. ----- From the Wisconsin State Journal: AP: Body of woman, 90, found in inhabited home UPDATE: Two charged after deputy finds dead woman By CHRIS RICKERT crickert@madison.com Two people have been arrested after a Juneau County Sheriff's deputy found one of them and her two children living in a home with the body of a 90-year-old woman decomposing on the bathroom toilet. Tammy D. Lewis, 35, and Alan A. Bushey, 57, both of Necedah are each charged with two felony counts of causing mental harm to a child, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday. Lewis also faces one count of obstructing police. The two, who are also known as Sister Mary Bernadett and Bishop John Peter Bushey, along with the dead woman, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth, were all part of a small Bible-based church led by Bushey, Juneau County Sheriff's Brent Oleson said. Links He said investigators are trying to determine if they were defrauding Middlesworth and that future charges against the two are "a very real possibility." He said there is evidence that the woman was providing financial support to the church and to Lewis and her family. Lewis and Middlesworth were not related, he said, but had been living together with Lewis' 15-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son about three and a half years. Oleson declined to call the church a cult but said "I guess in my mind I don't know of any faith that sanctioned his teachings." Bushey had been living in the area about 11 years, Oleson said, did not have outside employment, and had built a chapel on the back of his home, which is located about half-mile away from where Middlesworth and Lewis were found. He said Bushey's church had few members; only eight were at a mass about two months ago. He said Bushey's church was not affiliated with the Queen of the Holy Rosary Mediatrix of Peace Shrine, which is less than a mile away from Middlesworth's home. According to the criminal complaint: The sheriff's office was asked on Wednesday to check on Middlesworth's welfare by the woman's sister, Bernice Metz, because Metz had not heard from her in "some time." When a deputy arrived at the home, Lewis initially claimed Middlesworth was on vacation, but after her body was discovered told the deputy that she had been dead for about two months. Lewis said she had been helping Middlesworth put on an undergarment when she passed out in her arms and she had left her propped on the toilet after Bushey, whom she referred to as her "superior," said to leave her on the toilet and pray. Lewis told the deputy that "God told her Alvina would come back to life is she prayed hard enough." Bushey told the deputy that "Lewis was obedient and served the Lord just as she should." The 12-year-old boy later told investigators that after Middlesworth died, Bushey told him her appearance "was the result of demons attempting to make it appear that Alvina would not come back to life. The boy also reportedly said that Bushey told him that if Middlesworth's death was discovered, he and his sister would have to go to public school and get jobs because the woman, whom the boy referred to as his "grandmother," was paying the bills. The girl made similar statements to investigators, the complaint says. Both children are in protective custody, Oleson said, and physically healthy. In court appearance Friday, Lewis and Bushey were ordered to have no contact with the children or each other and their bonds were set at $50,000 each. The complaint states that incense was used to cut down on the stench in the home and that Lewis said she and her children were using a bucket in a closet as a bathroom.
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