Paedo kidnaps woman, 5, as mum hears cries and finds him together with his pants round his ankles
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, abducted a five-year-old girl from the street in Winson Green and sexually assaulted her before being caught by her mother
The case was heard at Birmingham Crown Court(Image: BPM Media)
A perilous sexual predator who kidnapped a five-year-old girl from the street and sexually assaulted her in his home has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The victim was confined in a downstairs room of a terraced house by Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, until the girl’s mother heard her crying and she was saved by two men who broke into the property.
The Sudanese national was convicted of false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault and assault, following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in September last year. He had previously pleaded guilty to charges of assault, attempted assault and criminal damage in relation to a separate incident.
The court was told that on the afternoon of March 30, the girl was playing in the street in Winson Green, Birmingham, whilst her mother was chatting to a friend who lived on the same road. When the child vanished from her sight, her mother and a friend began a desperate search for her, first checking a park and then a corner shop.
Upon returning to the street, the mother recognised the sound of her daughter crying and identified the house it was coming from. The front door to the property was locked, so she picked up a piece of wood and tried to break the window of the room where the youngster and the defendant were located.
The mother’s friend then partially climbed through the window and saw Abdulraziq and the girl, whose cycling shorts were down by her ankles, whilst the defendant was also undressed. Abdulraziq ‘swung’ a punch at the woman and shut the window causing her to fall back to the street.
The commotion attracted the attention of two men who forced the defendant’s door open. The court also heard that Abdulraziq had drunk three cans of beer and had smoked two cigarettes of Mamba, a synthetic cannabis drug, on the day of the incident.
Sentencing on Friday (13/3), Judge Kerry Malin said “The victim was a five-year-old little girl happily playing in the street. Her mother was talking to a neighbour. You appeared on the street and spoke to the mother. It was clear to both women that you were heavily under the influence of an illicit substance.
“You made sexualised comments towards her. They were disturbing but she quite properly ignored the comments but she was sufficiently concerned to go down the road and close her own front door. She then returned to speak to her neighbour. She kept a close eye on her daughter throughout.”
The judge said, though, that when the mother looked away “for less than 10 seconds” Abdulraziq took her daughter from the street.
She added: “While you can not be seen on the footage I am sure you encouraged the girl to enter your home and took her to your bed sitting room and the door was locked.
“It is perhaps fortunate that your room overlooked the street. The mother and her friend, within a few seconds, realised that the girl was no longer visible from the road and they launched a frantic search for her.
“It must have been a horrific experience to bang on the door and window and see her daughter inside. She even got a nearby scaffolding board to break the window and get to her daughter. Still you did not let the girl leave the room.”
The judge stated that when the neighbour climbed onto the window sill “she could clearly see that you were bent over towards the victim near to the bed and your lower clothes were around your ankles as were hers”.
She mentioned in an impact statement that the victim’s mother spoke of the “trauma” they had both endured and that the “cries of distress and helplessness of her daughter would haunt her for ever.”
The court also heard that the victim had transformed from a “happy and confident little girl to one with complex behavioural needs.”
Judge Maylin, who extended the defendant’ licence by four years, expressed her belief that Abdulraziq posed a risk to others of serious harm, particularly young childrenDetective Sergeant Nicky Simms, of West Midlands Police, previously commented: “Abdulraziq was a predatory individual who took a young girl off the street and into his house. Fortunately, incidents of this nature are rare.
“I must praise the courage of the girl and her mother in what has been a very sensitive investigation.”
