Nationwide — 60-year-old Ernest Nichols, a former gymnasium trainer from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, who was convicted of repeatedly raping a scholar again in 2011, has been murdered in jail by one other inmate. The Division of Grownup Correction says his was found on the ground beside his bunk in a dormitory within the Greene Correctional Establishment simply earlier than 7am.
Nicols was scheduled to be launched from jail in September of 2027.
In accordance with Native Information 12, two days after the homicide, the Inexperienced County Sheriff’s Workplace charged fellow inmate Wilbert Baldwin with homicide in reference to Nichols’ loss of life. Baldwin is serving a sentence for a second-degree homicide that he was convicted for again in 2010.
Nichols had been convicted of statutory rape in 2011 for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old woman a number of instances in a 6-month-long span. He additionally had been accused of watching the woman have consensual intercourse with one other boy.
He was additionally accused of making pretend Fb account utilizing his teenage son’s identification to ship messages to the sufferer, asking her to make up sexually express tales and to textual content him when she entered the bathe.
There was no official remark but from his household.
