Convicted Pedophile Wins Millions In State Lottery
Â Department store employee Edgar Phipps led a quiet life and followed the same routine for years. All that changed last week, though, whenÂ he won a state lottery drawing that netted him almost $5 million.When lottery officials verified Phippsâ identity, though, they say that a disturbing fact came up on his record. According to the Illinois State Lottery Commission, Phipps was a listedÂ on theÂ Illinois state sex offender registry.âOh, yeah. I forgot about that,âÂ said Phipps. âWhoops.âPhipps saysÂ he forgot about the multiple incidents of aggravated sexual contact with minors, technically classifying him as a pedophile. âOh, yeah those,â said Phipps. âWell, that was me getting screwed by the system. They all said they were legal age, but they lied, so the state blamed me and then I had to go to jail for a few years or whatever, then they made me register when I got out. Thank God I donât have any neighbors nearby orÂ any schools around. I didnât have to go door-to-door like those freaks do, introducing themselves to neighbors saying âHi, Iâm Ed and Iâm on a sex pervert list,â or anything embarrassing like that.âPhipps claims he received treatment and counseling for a number of years after âthe sex things,â and is fully cured. He received the check from the state lottery commission after it was learned that he had received counseling and did not re-offend.âSo anyway,â recalled Phipps, âI get home with the giant check and thatâs when the trouble started. I had tons of emails and phone calls from people I didnât know who must have Googled my name and found out about the sex things. Talk about invasion of privacy!âAccording to Phipps, the emails were just the beginning. Phipps claims several of his windows were shattered, and his roof was damaged. âI guess the branch coming down on the roof wasnât related to the sex thing, but the rocks through the window were a different story. But then again, we did have a really bad hail storm that day, and there was that F4 tornadoâ¦now that I think back on it.âEmpire News asked Phipps the number one question asked of everyÂ lottery winner: What do you plan on doing with the money?âWell,â he answered, âlast Christmas I had to cut some friends off my gift list, so Iâm going to do a belated Christmas for everyone I missed, dressed up as Santa, of course!â On his list: a tricycle, a Little Suzy Easy Cookie Cake Oven, some stuffed animals, and several popular action figures which he plans on giving his friends.âIâm the luckiest guy alive,â said Phipps. âI feel like Iâm on top of the world!âPhipps says he plans on quitting his department store job and willÂ devote more time to his favorite hobby, taxidermy.