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Published - Sunday, May 11, 2008

Two charged in Juneau County for keeping kids in house with corpse

NECEDAH— Charges were filed today against a Necedah woman accused of having two teenagers live in a home with a dead elderly woman in the bathroom, according to the Juneau County Sheriff’s Department.

Tammy Lewis, 35, is charged with two counts of causing mental harm to a child and resisting or obstructing an officer in Juneau County Circuit Court. Alan Bushey, 57, faces identical charges.

About 5 p.m. Wednesday, sheriff’s deputies responded to a house for a welfare check for a 90-year-old woman living in the town of Necedah who had not been heard from in a couple of months, according to the sheriff’s department.

A deputy found the woman dead in the bathroom. Authorities estimated she died about two months ago. Three other people, including Lewis and two children, 15 and 12, were living in the home.

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