Two Nigerians who were charged to court in the UK, for sharing a child sex video on WhatsApp and showed it to their colleagues, have been spared a prison sentence after the judge said they were ‘trying to demonstrate the evils of the world’.
Last year’s April, 50-year-old midwife Amudat Popoola(first pictured), had played the sickening six minute clip to horrified staff at east London’s Newham General Hospital on her mobile phone in April last year, Daily Mail reported.
The horrendous film depicted a young girl of two to three years old performing a sex act on a grown male in his 20s or 30s.
The day before, Popoola had asked for the clip be sent to her via WhatsApp after being shown it by health care assistant Yaodele Salami, 48(pictured).
Colleagues at Newham General were so shocked by the footage that a student nurse immediately reported it to police who arrested the pair, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
The reports said Judge Martyn Zeidman QC allowed them to avoid jail – convinced they only had the video to show how bad its content was.
However, both will now have to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and face the end of their careers
The judge said: ‘Miss Salami, Miss Popoola, you are both employed in a responsible, important position in a hospital. The public expect great things of you.
‘It follows that you needed to show high standards of behaviour and at the very least ensure that you do not commit any criminal offences.
‘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.
‘That is not the position here and it is what makes this case exceptional.
‘For both of you these convictions will have a dire consequence on your employment.’
Salami was handed a 12-month prison term, suspended for 12 months, for possessing, distributing and showing an indecent image of a child.
Popoola was handed a longer 14-month sentence for possessing and showing the same image to reflect her later plea of guilt, but that was similarly suspended for 12 months.
Source: Daily Mail
