A mental competency evaluation now is ordered for the woman who lived with her two children in a rural Necedah residence while a 90-year-old woman's body sat in the bathroom for two months.

A judge in Mauston agreed with the request by Tammy Lewis for the evaluation.

The 35-year-old Lewis and 57-year-old Alan Bushey (boo-SHAY') are charged with two counts of causing a child mental harm. Lewis is also charged with obstruction.

Lewis' two children have been placed in foster care.

Court records show someone continued to write checks on an account belonging to Magedline Alvina Middlesworth after she died in early March. A deputy sent to check on her whereabouts last Wednesday found her decaying remains on the toilet in the bathroom.

Documents show investigators took financial records from that house and from the home of Bushey, a self-described bishop who has a sign outside his residence indicating he ran it as a chapel.

Lewis' lawyer Dan Berkos disputed comments of prosecutors that Bushey headed a cult. Berkos says almost any organized religion could be described that way.