As a retired correctional officer I can tell you that when this vile creature was assaulted by other inmates I would be “somewhere else” and “didn’t see anything”.
As heinous as his crime was, the apparently large number of prison rapes sickens me. And what sickens me about it the most, is that most of them could not take place without the cooperation of prison personnel. I consider that cooperation a sign of a corrupt human being. I expect bad behavior from sociopathic prisoners; that prison guards are complicit, makes them no better than the criminals they are guarding. Ditto for the drug use in prisons.
Most COs would feel the same...the problem is, here in Oklahoma, we have on one prison facility where all pedos are housed. They cannot have them in gen pop, and they do not have enough “catch out” space to segregate them safely, so our DOC transitioned a compete medium security facility for the sole purpose of housing pedos and child abusers. There are also some other “sex crimes” offenders there, but not enough to cause a problem. It has saved the state a lot of money by doing this as it slowed down lawsuits from families of pedos killed by other inmates. Several years ago, we had one pedo who was a priest/preacher (not sure of his religion) who they had in “catch out.” He didn’t like the restrictions of PC so his family threatened to sue the state if they didn’t move him to gen pop. The state tried to convince them they couldn’t ensure his safety, but the inmate and his family would not relent, so the pedo preacher was moved to gen pop. Well, he was dead within an hour of being moved to a regular housing unit. So...the state changed its handling of pedos.