Man bailed out by Portland anti-cop group killed his children's mother

A convicted murderer who stabbed and strangled the mother of his children to death was allowed out on bail to commit the crime after the cash was posted by a now-defunct, Portland-based defund the police group, according to authorities. The boyfriend had been behind bars for repeatedly abusing and beating his girlfriend.

Mohamed Adan, 36, was stuck behind bars for beating his girlfriend, Racheal Abraham, in August 2022. However, the "Portland Freedom Fund" posted bail for the criminal. “The Portland Freedom Fund, thinking it knew better than law enforcement professionals, decided to bail him out,” Melissa Marrero, the senior prosecutor on the case, said at his sentencing hearing on Tuesday, per the Oregonian. “It cost her her life.”

Abraham begged the judge not to release Adan earlier that year after the criminal had strangled her and punched her in the head twice in May. Adan had been high on meth when he committed the crime. “Statistics show that strangulation cases lead to homicide,” Abraham said in a statement in court two months before she was killed. “I don’t want to be a victim.” 

Instead of keeping him behind bars, the judge granted Adam's release and granted Abraham a no-contact order, but did not offer her any protection. Judge Benjamin Bushong released Adan just five days after and ordered that he wear an ankle monitor. That monitor was later cut off by Adan, who went to Abraham's home and beat her with prayer beads on August 11. He was later arrested again for the prayer bead attack, but the activists at the Portland Freedom Fund decided to pay the 10 percent of the bail he needed to be released pending his trial, just $2,000 of the total of $20,000.

He was once again put on a GPS tracker that he later disabled. He again went to Abraham's apartment after being freed by the defund the police activists, where he stabbed and then strangled her to death as their children were in the home, prosecutors said in the case.

Adan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Tuesday and was sentenced to life behind bars, but will be given eligibility for parole after 25 years. The now-defunct "Portland Freedom Fund" wanted to “bring attention to the racial disparity in the cash bail system,” but shut down in September 2022.