It sounds like the beginning of a tasteless joke: “A sex offender walks into a 7-Eleven…”
And it ends like one too: The sex offender buys a lottery ticket, and wins. That’s what happened this week when Timothy Poole, a convicted sex offender, won the $3 million lottery jackpot in Florida after buying a $20 scratch-off ticket, ABC reports.
Poole, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to attempted sexual battery involving two victims under the age of 12, will get to keep his winnings.
[ABC]
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