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"'Bishop' receives two-year sentence for making kids live with corpse"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is headline of this local article from Wisconsin that seems tailor made for blog debate.  Here are the details: A former Necedah church leader will spend the next two years in prison for keeping a decomposing corpse in the bathroom of a home where two children lived.  Alan A. Bushey, also known as Bishop John Peter of the Order of the Divine Will Church, was given three years of extended supervision to follow his prison sentence for being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse. During the sentencing hearing Wednesday, Juneau County Circuit Court Judge John Roemer Jr. also ordered Bushey to have no contact with his co-defendant, Tammy D. Lewis, or her two children and to undergo domestic abuse counseling and not act as a member of the clergy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).