A case against a midwife and health care worker who
showed colleagues a child sex video was dismissed on Monday, Jan. 18,
after the judge said they did it to "demonstrate the evil of the world".
According to Newham Recorder, Amudat Popoola, 50, (pictured above leaving the Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday)
played the six
minute clip depicting a little girl aged 2 to 3 performing a sex
act on a man in his 20s or 30s to horrified staff at Newham University
Hospital on her
mobile phone in April last year.
Popoola had asked for the film be sent to her via messaging
service WhatsApp after being shown it by health care assistant Yaodele
Salami, 48. Colleagues at the hospital in Glen Road, Plaistow,
were so shocked by the footage that a student nurse immediately reported
it to police who arrested the pair.
In
what he described as an "exceptional case", Judge
Martyn Zeidman QC told Popoola and Salami that they both held a
"responsible, important position in a hospital" and "needed to show high
standards of behaviour".
"It seems that once
the image
had been received you both sought to use it, not for sexual pleasure but
to demonstrate the evils of the world in which we live. Your motive was
very different from someone who just does it for sexual purposes."
James
Higbee, defending Salami, said she had been sent the video by a
colleague at the hospital whose name has been passed on to police. The
fact that these offences were not committed for sexual gratification was
not disputed by the prosecution.
Salami,
of Ivyhouse Road, Dagenham, was handed a 12-month prison term,
suspended for 12 months, for possessing, distributing and showing an
indecent image of a child.
Popoola, of Dagenham Avenue, Dagenham,
was handed a 14-month sentence for possessing and showing the same
image, also suspended for 12 months.
Both will also have to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and face the end of their careers after pleading guilty.
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