Much like the fake nun (actual prostitute) famously portrayed by Shirley MacLaine in the film Two Mules For Sister Sara (also starring Clint Eastwood), the New York Post this week has the very bizarre account of one "Sister Mindy" (pictured on left), who's been panhandling as an Episcopal nun for a decade on Little Italy's Mulberry Street in the Big Apple. (BTW, isn't Mulberry Street the place where Al Pacino's "Lefty" character was from in the film Donnie Brasco? -- But I digress).According to The Post, it turns out that Sister Mindy really isn't a nun at all, but rather is a chief fundraiser (through her panhandling and other activities) for a cultish NYC family headed up by convicted rapist Noconda LeGrand -- himself the son of the notorious convicted (and now deceased) rapist and murderer Devernon LeGrand. (See The Post's full story, linked at bottom, for this family's complete and sordid background, of which I will spare you).
It seems that Sister Mindy is Devernon's daughter-in-law -- but just which son of Devernon to whom Mindy's married is anyone's guess since dude reportedly had 47 kids by various girls and women, and that was just as of 1965. One of Devernon's big moneymakers back in the day was to send out his "harem of fake nuns" (wayward female teens and 20-somethings whom he had recruited into his cultish "church") to panhandle across the city. It's good to see that Sister Mindy is carrying on the ol' family tradition.
The Post recently followed Sister Mindy around for a day while she went about her Little Italy rounds. As usual, Mindy -- with cigarette in mouth much of the time -- "spent the day hustling along Mulberry Street's busy pedestrian plaza, ducking into Italian restaurants and thrusting her metal cup at shoppers, diners and passers-by." She tells people one of two things -- either that she's collecting for the homeless or that she's raising money for a fictional orphanage called "St. Joseph's."
Sister Mindy also appears to be quite the movie buff (I can guarantee you that she's seen Two Mules for Sister Sara at some point), as The Post reports that she took a little break from her begging that day in order to buy some bootleg DVDs on the street. After about five hours of panhandling, Sister Mindy called it a day and caught the Q train to head to Brooklyn. On the train, Mindy -- apparently always looking to score another buck -- tried (unsuccessfully) to sell some "perfume vials" to a fellow rider.
Getting off the train in Brooklyn, Sister Mindy took off her fake nun get-up right in the middle of the street! Sporting a pink tank top, the rather large lady stuck her nun outfit in a plastic bag and hoofed it the rest of the way home, but not before stopping by a deli to pick up "a sandwich, canned pasta and a bottle of water." (Canned pasta -- love that stuff!). Arriving at home ("a rundown brick house with garbage strewn across its front yard"), a "hulking man" reportedly came out the house, extended to Mindy a big "bear hug," and then "lustily" gave her a whack across the ass just for good measure.
And please don't get the wrong impression: It's not all panhandling and no play for Sister Mindy. When The Post returned to her home a few days later, a boy answered the door and said that Sister Mindy had gone to Atlantic City -- undoubtedly to see if she could make those panhandling winnings "grow" a little bit at the AC casinos!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/twisted_sister_act_by_lying_nun_2pBEDN8HMJLjaJZoJduDPO
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