After a California inmate beat two convicted child molesters to death with a cane, he decided to speak openly about what happened behind bars. His words should serve as a warning.
Jonathan Watson, a 41-year-old California inmate, attacked David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, at the Corcoran Drug Treatment Center and State Prison, NBC Los Angeles reported. Both men were taken to hospital with head injuries after being bludgeoned with canes. Watson shamelessly admitted to their murders after Bobb died en route and Luis-Conti was pronounced dead three days later.
David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti were both serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14, according to NBC Miami. Watson was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for first-degree murder and discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death. Even though Watson was a criminal himself, the crimes committed by Bobb and Luis-Conti did not sit well with the lifer.
Although a DOC spokesperson declined to comment on the incident, citing an ongoing investigation, Watson publicly confessed to beating the two convicted child molesters to death and provided an exclusive, detailed report on what happened. happened at Mercury News. In a letter to the news organization, Watson initially explained that he had received a lower-level security classification, which led to his transfer to Corcoran Prison. There he was placed in a dormitory rather than the single cell he was in previously.
Just six days after the transfer, Watson realized it was not a good environment for him and asked to be moved after a “child molester” was housed in his pod. Watson said he told prison officials he was about to become violent and an attack was imminent if he was not transferred, but he said his warnings fell on deaf ears from a deaf person. Only a week after being placed in a dormitory-style prison, he snapped, beating two men to death, using another inmate’s cane.
In the hours before the attack was launched, Watson said he tried to avoid it, saying he made an “urgent” request for a transfer to a prison counselor, telling them he would soon attack an inmate if not moved. Although he did not refer to Bobb or Luis-Conti by name in his letter, he explained that he reached his breaking point when “Molester #1” began watching PBS Kids on View from other inmates, which he and others took as a taunt, and it left Watson sleepless.
“I couldn’t sleep without doing what my instinct told me I should have done right then and there, so I packed all my things because I knew that somehow the situation would be resolved the next day,” Watson wrote. The next day, he told the prison counselor that he needed to be transferred back to Level III “before I actually (cuss) one of these guys.” He said he had clearly warned he would become violent, but the counselor “laughed at me and sent me away”.
Watson returned to his module, where things went from bad to worse. “I was thinking about this when Molester #1 came along and he put his TV on PBS Kids again,” he wrote. “But this time, someone else said something like, ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I remember saying, “I got it.” And I took the cane and went to work on him.
Just two hours after Watson spoke with the counselor, he had beaten a man. According to Watson, the guards were still unresponsive. He said he had gone looking for her, intending to turn himself in. On the way, he met a second “child trafficker”, decided to kill him too and started beating him.
“As I got to the lower level, I saw a known child trafficker and thought I would do everyone a favor,” Watson said. “For a penny, for a pound.”
Authorities were completely unaware of the beating until Watson himself located a guard, confessed to what he had done and led him to the bloody scene, he said. “I said to him, ‘I have some very bad news,’ to which he replied ironically, ‘You’re not going to hit me with that cane, are you?'” Watson recalled. “So, after joking around for a while, knowing that this might be the last decent moment I had in a long time, I told him what I had just done, which he didn’t believe no more until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I had left in the dorm.
Jonathan Watson wrote that he was arrested for the murders and made a full confession to prison officials. Rather than showing remorse, however, he suggested that “he might attempt to kill again if housed with child molesters in the future,” Mercury News reported. Few would blame him for what he said:
“As a lifer, I am in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and have so little to lose,” Watson wrote. “And believe me, we get it, these people are every parent’s worst nightmare. These families spend years carefully and clearly planning how to give their children every opportunity they never had, and a monster comes along and changes that child’s trajectory forever.
Jonathan Watson isn’t the only criminal who feels this way. As Robert Hood, a retired prison warden who was in charge of a federal supermax prison in Colorado, put it, “the person at the bottom of the totem pole” — even among drug dealers, murderers, burglars and even worse – “is sex”. “They are the lowest of the lowest, and perhaps that is why we all feel a sense of satisfaction when they receive the punishment they truly deserve in the form of good old prison justice .
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