MARTINEZ (KRON) — A convicted child molester has died, two days after he tried to kill himself in a Martinez jail cell, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.
Discovery Bay resident John Hansen, 54, was convicted on multiple counts of child molestation and was awaiting transport to state prison, when he was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday, according to sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee.
Staff in the Martinez Detention Facility quickly responded and rendered aid to Hansen. Emergency crews transported him to Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Lee said. He was pronounced dead late Thursday afternoon.