GUILTY WI - Magdeline Middlesworth, 90, found decomposed, Necedah, 4 March 2008

[tapu]

A toilet, especially the only toilet, is a really weird place to "hide" a corpse....

 

[GlitchWizard]

A Wisconsin religious sect member pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor and fined $350 for leaving another member’s corpse on her bathroom toilet for two months so the group could collect her Social Security checks.

http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2008/11/17/350-fine-in-corpse-on-toilet-case/

"So, how much fine should be assessed for letting a corpse sit on your toilet for two months?"

"Oh, $350 ought to cover it."

Who MAKES these decisions?

 

[Kat]

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/453118

SAT., MAY 30, 2009 - 4:46 PM

Estate of woman whose body was left on toilet sues over property she deeded to religious sect

The estate of an elderly devout woman who died and was left to decompose for two months on the commode in a Necedah home has sued to get possession of that property, which she paid for but deeded to members of the religious sect to which she belonged.

Members did not notify authorities of her death because they were waiting for her resurrection, they said...

more at link.

 

[Kymistry35]

I hope those kids are receiving counseling and are in foster homes.

 

[ziggy]

Oh Brother. Nice religion = scam artists.

I hope the court does the right thing and excludes this sect from getting anything from the old lady.

 

[OkieGranny]

From July 2009:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...y-years-hiding-corpse-toilet-article-1.430654

A judge sentenced the leader of a religious sect to 2 years in prison Wednesday for hiding an elderly follower’s rotting body on a toilet for weeks...

Roemer, who called the case “horrific,” said living with a rotting corpse devastated Lewis’ daughter, now 16, and son, now 14. District Attorney Scott Southworth said they had to use a bucket in a closet for a toilet. Bushey told them that a demon was making the body decay and that they weren’t praying hard enough to bring Middlesworth back to life, Southworth added.

Southworth called Bushey’s group a cult and Bushey a “warped” con man. His church, the Orthodox Catholic Church of Russia in the Americas, defrocked him in 1998 but Bushey continued to pass himself off as a clergyman...

Southworth initially charged Bushey with two counts of causing mental harm to a child, two counts of misdemeanor theft and one count of hiding a corpse. Bushey eventually pleaded no contest to hiding a corpse. In return Southworth dropped the other charges. Roemer also ordered Bushey to serve three years on extended supervision with the condition that he not work as a clergyman during that time.