A sexual predator who abducted a five-year-old girl from the street and assaulted her in his home has been jailed for 11 years.
Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, held the victim in a downstairs room until her mother heard her crying and she was rescued by two men who forced their way in.
The girl had been playing in the street before the Sudanese national snatched her and brought her into his terraced house.
By the time she was rescued, the girl’s cycling shorts were round her ankles and Abdulraziq’s ‘lower clothes’ were also down – he was ‘bent over her near to the bed’.
He had previously made ‘sexualised comments’ towards the girl’s mother on the street.
Abdulraziq was found guilty of false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault and assault after a trial.
Birmingham Crown Court heard he previously admitted charges of assault, attempted assault and criminal damage in relation to a separate incident.
On March 30, 2025, the girl was playing in the street while her mother spoke with a neighbour, the court heard.
Mohammed Abdulraziq abducted a five-year-old girl from the street and sexually assaulted her in his home
Abdulraziq appeared and spoke to the girl’s mother – it was ‘clear’ he was ‘heavily under the influence of an illicit substance’, according to sentencing judge Kerry Maylin.
The court heard he had drunk three cans of beer and smoked two cigarettes of Mamba, a synthetic cannabis drug, that day.
He made ‘sexualised comments towards her’, the judge said.
Ms Maylin continued: ‘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.’
But when the girl’s mother looked away ‘for less than ten seconds’, Abdulraziq took her daughter from the street.
The mother and her friend began searching for the girl, going to a park and then a corner shop.
When she returned to the street the girl’s mother recognised her daughter’s crying inside a house.
The front door was locked so she picked up a wooden scaffolding board and tried to smash the window of the room where Abdulraziq and her daughter were.
Abdulraziq was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday
Her neighbour then climbed part-way through the window and saw the Sudanese with the girl.
He ‘swung’ a punch at the woman and shut the window – she fell back on to the street.
Two other men heard the noise and forced Abdulraziq’s door open before detaining him until police arrived.
Ms Maylin said the victim was a ‘little girl happily playing in the street’.
She added: ‘While you cannot be seen on the footage I am sure you encouraged the girl to enter your home and took her to your bedroom 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 said when the neighbour climbed on to the windowsill ‘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’.
In a victim impact statement the victim’s mother said she and her daughter suffered ‘trauma’, while the girl’s ‘cries of distress and helplessness’ would ‘haunt her forever’, the judge said.
The court was also told that the victim had gone from a ‘happy and confident little girl to one with complex behavioural needs’.
Detective Sergeant Nicky Simms, of West Midlands Police’s central complex child abuse investigation team, said: ‘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.’
Ms Maylin extended the defendant’s licence by four years and said she was satisfied that Abdulraziq posed a risk to others of serious harm, particularly young children.
He had been due for sentencing in January but the hearing was postponed after the court heard the probation service had yet to assess him for ‘dangerousness’.