Middle school teacher that repeatedly r@ped teen is k!lled in jail by known murd£rer
A middle school teacher who was convicted of r@ping a 15-year-old multiple times has been k!lled in prison by a convicted murd£rer.
Ernest Nichols was discovered de@d beside his dormitory bunk in the Greene Correctional Institution at around 6:50 a.m. on October 5.
Two days later, On October 7, 2025, the Green County Sheriff’s Office charged fellow inmate Wilbert Baldwin, 41, with murd£r in connection with Nichols’ de@th.
Baldwin was reportedly serving a 20-year sentence for second-degree murd£r that happened in Richmond County back in 2007, which he was convicted of in 2010.
He was given no bond and has been moved to Maury Correctional Institution.
Nichols, a former middle school teacher, was convicted in 2011 of statutory r@pe that happened in Mecklenburg County. He was projected to be released from prison in September 2027.
Baldwin (left) k!lled Nichols (right)
According to a search warrant obtained by local outlet WBTV, Nichols r@ped a 15-year-old girl multiple times in a 6-month-long span beginning in the fall of 2008. Nichols also allegedly watched the teenager have consensual s£x with another boy.
The former gym teacher also reportedly created a fake Facebook account using his teenage son’s identity and messaged the victim, asking her to make up s£xually explicit stories and to text him when she entered the shower. He also allegedly told her to tell other people that the s£x with Nichols was consensual if anybody asked about it.
The victim was reportedly not a student at Ransom Middle School, where Nichols worked.
