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Sex Offender Wins Lottery, Suffers Severe Beating

By Corey Rayburnyung

Earlier we reported that an Alaskan sex offender won a $500,000 lottery sponsored by a rape support group. Police are now saying that the sex offender was attacked on a downtown Anchorage street with a tire iron or metal pipe.  From The Guardian:Police say Alec Ahsoak, 53, was attacked when a man approached him to ask if he was the man who won the $500,000 (£343,000) jackpot.Whether the attack was motivated by Ahsoak's winning the lottery or the widely distributed reports that he is a three-time convicted sex offender was unclear."There was no apparent attempt at robbery," police lieutenant Dave Parker said. "He was struck eight to 10 times, and then he threw his Pepsi at the assailant and he ran for Phyllis' Cafe and the assailant ran off."By yesterday evening, Ahsoak had been discharged from the hospital and police had taken a man and a woman into custody, Parker said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).