A man from Uxbridge, Massachusetts who won the lottery for $10 million in 2008 was arrested on Friday for allegedly molesting a child, the New York Daily News reported.
Daniel Snay, a 62-year-old repeat sex offender, was arrested for engaging in "crimes of a sexual manner" with a boy for several years when he was between 8 and 14-years-old, Uxbridge police chief Jeffrey Lourie told the Daily News.
Police said Snay used some of his lottery money to carry out the molestation.
Snay allegedly used the money to purchase gifts for people who helped him abuse the boy, Lourie told the Daily News.
The lottery winner, who is already registered as a level three sex offender, was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14, enticement of a child, dissemination of pornography to a minor and reckless endangerment of a child. He is held on $5 million cash bail, the Daily News reported.
Snay won the lottery in Connecticut when he purchased a $20 scratch card, the Worcester Telegram and Gazette reported in 2008. He received his lottery winnings in the form of 20 checks of $500,000. Local residents and police were uncomfortable with who the winner was.
"People see winning the lottery as a reward," Uxbridge Police Sergeant Peter Emerick told the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. "This is certainly not an area that I would reward."
Snay was convicted a total of six times for assaulting a child under the age of 14 between the years 1974 and 1987.
Police are currently investigating Snay for other possible crimes committed in Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island and New York. Snay is also suspected of abusing other boys in the Uxbridge area. Lourie would not say if other victims have accused Snay of abuse, the Daily News reported.
