Former Nigerian police officer Sinmi Asomuyide, 33, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for s+x¥ally a§§aulting a 14-year-old girl while on duty.
The US Department of Justice said he was convicted in June 2026 of deprivation of rights under colour of law, witness tampering and destruction of records.
Asomuyide, then serving with the Kokomo Police Department in Indiana, met the girl on June 30, 2024, after her father reported her as a runaway.
He took her to a youth centre, switched off his body camera and used her phone to call his personal TextNow number. They exchanged messages as she believed he would return her seized v@pe pen.
That night, he left the police station after requesting overtime, picked her up from a family friend’s apartment in uniform, handcuffed her and drove her to an empty warehouse parking lot, where he s+x¥ally a§§aulted her.
