A sick child molester who abused unconscious kids has been found dead in his California prison, with his violent inmate being eyed for his homicide, officials said.
Robert E. Cole, 48, was found unresponsive at about 6:30 a.m. Friday in his cell at Mule Creek State Prison, where he was life with the possibility of parole for a string of sickening sex crimes — with at least one of his victims under 10 years old, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Officers attempted to resuscitate the pedophile — who also molested someone while they were unconscious — but he was declared dead minutes later.
Although the Amador County Coroner has yet to determine the exact cause of death, it is being investigated as a homicide, the prison department said.
Cole’s cellmate, Justin P. Welsh — who is serving 18 years for a string of convictions for violence — was placed in restricted housing while being investigated for the suspected homicide, the statement said.
Welsh, 36, was sentenced to 18 years for assault with a firearm and inflicting corporal injury, both second-strike offenses. He also received enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury involving domestic violence and has a prior felony conviction of a serious offense, officials said.
The dead pedophile had a string of truly abhorrent convictions — including having sex with a child under 10, forcing a child under 14 into oral copulation with the threat of force/violence/fear and even oral copulation with an unconscious child
He had been in Mule Creek State Prison since 2019.
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