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On Saturday January 10th, 3 time sex offender Alec Ahsoak wins a $500,000 lottery that was designed to benefit a sex abuse victims charity. He later reports that he is going to donate $100,000 to one of the charities and use the rest of the money to buy a house and turn his life around.
There are so many things wrong with this picture and it starts back in the beginning of the contest. There should have been rules in place that didn't allow sex offenders to participate in this drawing. When they found out that the winner was not just a one time but three time sex offender they should have put their foot down and found a way in the legal system to deny him of this money. Sex offenders kill little children and terrorize them every day and should not be awarded for it with $500,000 dollars. He should be in jail. He says he is going to turn his life around but what is the saying “once a cheater always a cheater” I would go ahead and change those words to “once an offender always an offender”. People that are that sick and twisted who haven’t turned their lives around the first time most likely aren’t going to after the third. Life is full of second chances and I totally believe in them but this is his fourth.
He received his check on Saturday afternoon and was extremely excited, who wouldn’t be but as an upstanding citizen I think it morally wrong in every way shape and form to allow him to laugh this off because that is what he is doing. He knowingly entered into a lottery drawing against sex offenders and is now pointing and laughing at us. What has this country come to?
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In a way, the guy is wrong for claiming the money. It is people like him who cause this foundation to even be up and running. Repeat offenders are very hard to tame and may never learn from those mistakes of harming someone, let alone multiple people.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, if he is sincere, which I do not know him, nor do i intend to talk to sex offenders, all i know is that if people just need a little push to make life better for themselves, then let them have their time. I would however keep an eye on his spendings, and his actions as well.
I believe that it is up for this lottery to decide the rules on who can win the money. Obviously the lottery, regardless of how the winner uses the money, has still benefited sex abuse victims because of the money it raised. The charity that began this lottery has the freedom to do whatever they want with any money.
ReplyDeleteOn a personal note, I am disgusted. It disgusts me whenever any human being objectifies another human and uses them, in an aggressive manner, for any type of sexual purposes against their will. At that point, the person should have experienced the fullest extent of the law, after due process, for each conviction. If the man is truly penitent, then I am overjoyed for a man to turn away from his wickedness. If not, then we can only hope that the press will keep a close eye on him since he is now a high-profile civilian.
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ReplyDeleteI think this is a very biased blog, so sorry to be honest. I am against what he has done, but to take a mans freedom from him after he has served his time is wrong.
ReplyDeleteI understand you say that he should not have won or he should be in jail, but who are you to say he can't change. That's whats wrong with society now, too busy judging and not giving others a chance.
Its sad so many ex-cons are looking for a job and are getting denied just because of that one question about being convicted of a felony within the last 7 years.
How can they ever change their life, if no one is willing to give them a chance? He paid for a raffle ticket just like everybody else did, so that should not have changed his chance of winning.
Yeah he is wrong for what he has done in the PAST, but maybe him winning was his blessing that only he can understand.
That's the beauty of this world. It is random. I think it is ironic and a bit funny that a four time sex-offender has been awarded that amount of money, but I also find it wrong on obvious moral grounds.
ReplyDeleteHowever, you have to consider the means through which he was put in jail? Did he flat out rape someone or sexually harass or abuse them or was the consent mutual? Often times, if a parent finds that their underage teen has willingly consented to sexual conduct they will deem it misconduct and have charges brought against the boyfriend/girlfriend which now becomes the offender.
I'm not supporting this guy. I don't think he should have received the cash. And you're right when you say that he hasn't done it once, twice, or even thrice times but FOUR! That's insane.
All I'm saying is that I'd look more into the details and maybe watch a great film entitled "The Woodsman."
Wow I'm absolutely mortified. Where is the validity in that charity if they allowed that to go forth?
ReplyDeleteMaybe a drug addict can change their life around but certainly not a sexual offender! I have taken enough social-pysch and general psychology coarses to know that something is not chemically balanced correctly in a sexual offenders brain.
You cannot just turn your life around! Why does he need money to change the fact that he is "sick" in the head anyways? Thats ridiculous and obscene. I mean although I completely notice the irony in this situation but I have to 100 percent agree that sicko went laughing his way all the way to the bank, and most likelyhas no intentions in turning his life around.