News Of The Weird - Feb. 13, 2002

Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.

The Lord as Micromanager:
(1) “It isn’t easy, but God said to (beat them),” testified former nun Lucille Poulin, before being convicted in October of assault in the harsh disciplining of children at her commune (Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada).

(2) “(G)od became my art agent. He basically gave me ideas,” said Thomas Kincade, the pop artist who has sold $450 million worth of machine-produced paintings in 13 years, to the chagrin of art purists (Morgan Hill, Calif., March).

(3) “God brought me down here,” said Angel DeGroff, auditioning in November to be one of the competitors in the next round of the TV show “The Bachelor” (Hales Corners, Wis.).

In October in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Mr. Rosaire Roy was sentenced to a year in jail for hiring someone to rob his store so Roy could fulfill a sexual fantasy; he had arranged for the robber to force him to undress, along with an unsuspecting female acquaintance who was in the store at the time, because Roy wanted to be tied up naked with her.

And in November, sheriff’s deputies in Fayette County, Ga., acting on a tip, arrested Sandy Creek High School teacher Damian Belvedere, 44, who (using his webcam) was in the middle of a live Internet performance of fondling himself, nude, in his otherwise empty classroom.
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