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Single mother of 5 brutally beaten by her baby daddy

Nicole killed by baby daddy/Leah Gordone

Single mom beat to death. 

Blog King, Mass Appeal

DURHAM — The adventures of Pookie & Ray Ray continue. Rodney Crawford was thrown in the slammer after he murdered his baby mama — Nicole Bullock — because she broke up with him. The femicide transpired March 5th around 8 a.m. at the Sonesta Select Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. Rodney called 911 and told the operator he and Nicole fought over a cell phone. When officers arrived, they found the 29-year-old mother deceased on a bed from cardiac arrest. She leaves behind 5 sons. Rodney was arrested and charged with murder. The 33-year-old thug should’ve been behind bars because he has a lengthy history of abusing Nicole who had an active restraining order against him. But, instead of 3 hots and a cot, the judge gave Rodney probation and a slap on the wrist. “I feel like the system failed her,” Nicole’s sister, Lakisha Polite, told reporters.

“She wasn’t protected at all.”

Rodney was convicted last year after he broke into Nicole’s home and tried to asphyxiate her. In 2014, he broke into her residence and punched her several times while she was laying next to her 5-month-old. Call it intuition, but Lakisha had a feeling something tragic would happen. “Her words were ‘I’m afraid,'” she recalled. “I’m afraid of what he’s going to do to me.'”

Corey Frost, an attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina, helped Nicole get a protective order.

But it wasn’t easy.

She had to jump through a million hoops.

“Like many victims of domestic violence, I think that Nicole encountered some barriers along the way to getting the help that she needed to get her restraining order and to escape this abusive relationship,” Frost said. “My hope is that her death is a reminder or wake-up call to folks in the community about how difficult it is for victims of domestic violence to leave abusive relationships. The kinds of barriers that often stand in their way, and how high the stakes are.”

Rodney told investigators Nicole invited him to the hotel despite the restraining order.

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  1. Fool wasn’t thinking about the kids at all, knowing they need their mother🤬 a jealous man is a dangerous man

  2. I wish she had some protection because she had every right to use it on that DEMONIC ROACH!!!

  3. This shyt is the same thing over and over and over again something gotta give yah. Prayers to her children🙏🏾😔

  4. I hope he has to fight those grown men everyday like he was beating on this baby 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  5. When someone shows you who they are leave them immediately. Women make the mistake of thinking they can change these men.

  6. Am I the only one sensing a pattern with the choice of guys these women always seem to be with?the thug,the”bad”boy what happened to the”good”man they claim to want?but it end up being the complete opposite.🤦🏾‍♂️

  7. He only beat her because he love her , he didn’t mean it , he was a good person

  8. So sick of this 💔💔 all those babies gotta grow up without their beautiful mom🥺🥺💔
    This is so sad man

  9. Protection orders donot protect! Relocate all together if you can! DONOT stay where your abuser knows you live

  10. I wish a law was passed that when a woman applies for an RO, the person she’s getting the RO against automatically has to wear electronic monitoring.

  11. I say this all the time, if you really need a restraining orders, then you you also need a weapon ladies.
    I know we all want to live positive lives but killers don’t respect that order of protection. Please fight for your lives and your kid’s lives.
    I’m a man who hate these stories.

  12. Why did she go to a hotel with him if she wanted a restraining order🤔

  13. WOMEN IT STARTS WITH OUR CHOICES FIRST. STOP LOOKING FOR A GOOD MAN AND WAIT ON THE MOST HIGH TO BRING YOU ONE. THATS THE ONLY WAY RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVER GOING TO WORK. LASTLY NEVER GO TO HOTELS AND LET YOUR ENEMIES KNOW. THE QUESTION I ASK IS HOW DID HE KNOW SHE WAS AT A HOTEL THAT NIGHT? APTTMH AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH AMEN AND AMEN SHALOM

  14. I always tell people these papers will not save you from a true evil person they don’t care about police or Paperwork and I know because I have 3 kids with someone who was like this and if anything police only provoked him and paperwork never stopped him from breaking in my home or staying away from me now I live somewhere he doesn’t even have my address and I can’t co parent with him he’s a liability/danger for my children and myself but when I see stories like this I always feel like disappearing was the best choice I made..I am sorry for this beautiful lady and her children…❤🙏🏽

  15. Ladies PO’s are not enough…it’s literal piece of paper to someone who wants to harm you. My sister has one and everytime her ex shows up he tells the police he didn’t know. They have served him at the court house, served him at her house, and told him again on the street. He spent a few months in county over it and to this day he’s still saying he doesn’t know and it’s been almost a year. Get some protection, get training, and stay aware of your surroundings. Don’t take him back because he’s nice or acting normal for a day or two these men will hurt you like it was nothing. Sending 🙏🏾to this family and especially her 5 children.

  16. Once you have to get a protective order, just go ahead and get a gun too. Take gun classes, shoot and ask questions later.

  17. So sad if she would’ve done “The Burning Bed” to him they would try to lock her up

  18. How did they end up together at a hotel if she had an order of protection???…gotta do better ladies!!!

  19. I have a restraining order for life with my child’s dad and I always keep in mind that that piece of paper won’t stop him.

  20. Ladies, if you can get licensed in your state do so if not get a heart attack inducing stun gun or a sharp hunting knife, and learn hand to hand combat. Better to be judged by 12 than carried 6. face-red-heart-shape

  21. They’re just killing these women at will🤨, ladies please please stay prayed up and 🔫’d up

  22. Ladies, if he looks crazy, acts crazy, and does crazy things,,,,,the chances are he is crazy. I’m sorry this beautiful little momma lost her life.

  23. That piece of paper doesn’t mean anything to a nut!! I had to get one and he was so afraid, but when you got some nut that will dial the police for you…..Run as quickly as you can.

  24. She didn’t take all the necessary steps. Why the hell would she go back to him and meet at hotel? That’s suspicious. Never meet a man you file a report on. It’s a trap

  25. Why are all these men beating women up like that? It’s scary to have a villain just hunt you all the time. Men please stop this!

  26. Ladies please run to another state if a man is this violent with you. Tell your family to arm themselves and go. There are domestic violence shelters across the country. A rough start for a 2nd chance is better than no more chances. 😥💔

  27. She did not break up with him he tried to break up with her and she kept fucking with him . Now go on ahead with all that .. it’s to sides of every story ….

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