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"Sex offender wins $500,000 Alaska lottery"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this new CNN piece.  Here are the basic details: An Alaska lottery held to raise money for a group that helps sexual abuse victims had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender.  Alec Ahsoak, who according to the state sex offender registry was convicted in 1993 and 2000 for sexual abuse of a minor, came forward Saturday with the winning ticket for the $500,000 Lucky Time Pull Tabs jackpot. Proceeds of the lottery help Standing Together Against Rape in Anchorage, a nonprofit group that offers support to sexual assault victims among other services. "It's not how we had envisioned the story going," Nancy Haag, the group's executive director, told CNN Radio. Alaska has the highest per capita number of rape cases in the United States, according to FBI statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).