It’s been said that individuals who sexually abuse children are viewed among convicted criminals as the lowest of lows within prisons. But what does that mean? For two inmates in a Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, it meant death by one of their fellow inmates. In Corcoran, a California inmate serving a life sentence for murder killed 2 child molesters in the prison by beating them with a cane.
Why the California Inmate Killed 2 Child Molesters
Just a week after 41-year-old Jonathan Watson, a murderer convicted in 2009, was transferred to the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Watson had spoken to a counselor within the prison, requesting that he be moved from the dorm-style housing in which he was being held.
Watson told the prison counselor that his request was “urgent” and that if wasn’t moved, he was likely to attack one of the child molesters who had been moved to his dorm-style unit.
The response, according to Watson, was a shrug, and his request was ignored.
Strangely, Watson wasn’t even supposed to be in a dorm-style unit, which is considered to be a Level II security. Previously, Watson had been held in a Level III housing unit, which meant he was in a single-person cell. According to Watson, the move from Level III to Level II housing was a “careless” mistake and he had clearly objected to being moved into the dorm-style housing.
Unfortunately for a couple inmates who had been convicted of child molestation of kids under age 14, Watson has a deep hatred for people who commit this type of crime. And this is what eventually meant he killed 2 child molesters.
In a confessional letter to the public, Watson wrote that one of the child molesters had been moved into his dorm-style unit six days after he’d been moved to the California-based jail. (Watson had originally sent this letter to the Bay Area News Group after they’d requested an interview with him about the incident.)
One Twitter user posted the story with direct quotes from Jonathan Watson. You can see that here:
National Hero forhislasttwomurdersONLY Jonathan Watson has been BLOCKED by the @CACorrections from receiving further funds from fans.
Guess he won’t have endless Hunger Games money on his books for his deeds. America! Send him tagless white tees! 👀💀💀https://t.co/7J4R5Hy9D0 pic.twitter.com/IxPcv9uNLZ
— Fmr Hogwarts Pop Culture Professor (@TrackSuitsOn) February 22, 2020
Watson took offence when he saw this particular individual openly watching PBS Kids. He believed the criminal convicted of a sex offence to a child was watching the children’s show to taunt the other inmates.
The image of “Molester #1,” as Watson put it, stuck with him over night, as the California inmate said he couldn’t sleep, “having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there.”
So the next day when “Molester #1” repeated his actions, Watson lost it, and he killed 2 child molesters.
“I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again,” Watson wrote in his letter. “But this time, someone else said something to the effect of ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.”
But how is it that he killed 2 child molesters?
According to Watson, he went to find a guard and confess, but on his way, he came across who he refers to as “Molester #2.”
The “known child trafficker,” as Watson put it, crossed his path and he decided to attack him, too.
“I figured I’d just do everybody a favor. In for a penny, in for a pound,” Watson said in his letter.
When Watson finally did make it to a guard, the guard didn’t believe the California inmate “until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d made.”
“Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose,” Watson wrote.
Watson later added, “And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare. These family’s spend years carefully and articulately planning how to give their children every opportunity that they never had, and one monster comes along and changes that child’s trajectory forever.”
Apparently, Watson has said he’d plead guilty to both killings and threatened authorities that if they place him with any child molesters in the future, he’ll kill them, too. As of the writing of this article, he hasn’t been charged.
