Amudat Popoola, 50, played the six minute clip to horrified
staff at Newham University Hospital on her mobile phone in April last year. It
depicted a young girl aged two to three years old performing a sex act on a man
in his 20s or 30s.
The day before, 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, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
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”.
He added: “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.”
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.
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