.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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