WOMAN IS ACCUSED OF DEALING PAINKILLERS, AND INFORMANTS SAY SHE USED THE
MONEY FOR LEGAL FEES IN CHILD-ABUSE CASE.

Alleged Child Abuser Faces Drug Charges

A Madison woman, awaiting trial for allegedly abusing an infant in
2003 at the day-care center she ran in her home, was arrested
Wednesday after police raided her home and seized evidence of an
apparent Oxycontin distribution business.

Beverly A. Marty, 53, is scheduled to go to trial in April for
allegedly shaking a 5-month-old boy left in her care. She also was
convicted in 1994 of child abuse for fracturing the skull of another
infant.

But according to a search warrant filed Thursday in Dane County
Circuit Court, while awaiting her trial, Marty has sold large
quantities of the powerful and addictive painkiller Oxycontin from her
home to pay for her legal expenses, informants told police.

According to an inventory filed with the search warrant, police seized
15 empty Oxycontin prescription bottles that once contained 450
tablets each. In all, they had contained 6,750 pills. Each bottle had
Marty's name on it. Police also raided the DeForest home of another
man informants said bought large quantities of Oxycontin from Marty
for re-sale.

Marty was tentatively charged with manufacturing or delivering
controlled substances, maintaining a drug house and bail jumping. She
remained in the Dane County Jail on Thursday.

According to the search warrant:

Investigators heard reports in January about Oxycontin trafficking at
Marty's home at 6910 Buckhorn Drive on Madison's far East Side.

Four confidential informants, all Oxycontin users, told police they
regularly went to Marty's home, known as "the pharmacy" by some, and
spent thousands of dollars buying Oxycontin. Marty told two of them
she was legally prescribed 900 pills per month for a medical condition
but sold most of the pills for profit. One informant said Marty made
several hundred dollars a week selling the pills, and that Marty said
she used part of it to pay the attorney handling her child-abuse case.

Police set up a controlled purchase of the drugs by one of the
informants and rigged that informant to record the transaction. On
tape, Marty can be heard talking about the quantities and dosages of
the pills she has for sale and accepting payment for the pills.

Her attorney in that case, Stephen Eisenberg, said he has not been
hired to represent Marty on the drug case. He said he does not believe
it will have an effect on Marty's upcoming trial on charges she abused
a 5-month-old boy in September 2003. The boy suffered respiratory
failure, bleeding on the brain and eye hemorrhages. Marty had been
free on a signature bond since being charged in January 2004.