Who cares about the female prisoners who will be victimized by this jerk? They're only women.
In a Men's prison, life sentences for child molesters tend to be nasty, brutish, and short.
Put him in general population.
(I'm not so sure he will be better off in women's prison.)
All it would take is for the 'ladies' to shred one or two of these types in the showers for this crap to stop.