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Lewis & Bushey: Incarcerated For Causing Mental Health Harm To Children

by Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader on May 10th, 2008

Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, and it seems like I just keep running into sad and…odd mental health news related to children.

Case in point:

Tammy Lewis, mother to a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, and self-described bishop Alan Bushey are in custody on “felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child.”

According to a Yahoo! News article, Lewis and her two children lived with Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth’s corpse for two months on Bushey’s advice. Bushey claimed Magdeline (who was 90 years old when she died) would come back to life.

Well, Magdeline did not come back to life, and authorities found her body on a toilet at Lewis’s residence late last week. Lewis and Bushey were placed in custody, and the two children were placed in foster care.

Like the Fritzl case, this is…well, it’s not something you hear about every day. Like the FLDS case, religion is heavily involved.

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