Child Sex Offender Wins $3 Million

by Cheri Roberts, Challenging the Rhetoric, The Guerilla Media Network

Registered sex-offender, Timothy Poole, 43, won $3 million in Florida’s State Lottery on a “Super Millions” $20 scratch-off ticket. Poole claimed his win in a one lump-sum payment of, $2,219,807.90. 

According to the Orlando Sentinel,

In 2001, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrested Poole on charges of sexual battery on a victim under 12, records show. Before that, he was arrested in 1991 for stealing almost $20,000 in food stamps from Safeco Inc. of Ocala, where he worked as a guard.

In all, Poole has been arrested 12 times in Florida on charges ranging from grand theft to forging a check, records show. Poole served three months in prison in 1996 and did a second stint from 2003 to 2006, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

Currently there are no laws prohibiting criminals, including child sex-offenders, from winning State Lotteries.

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