Sinmi Asomuyide, a Nigerian-American police officer, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he rescued from a 911 call.
He lied, he messed with evidence, until dried semen was found in his car and the DNA proved a match.
Asomuyide 33, and another cop responded to a 911 call from a guy, who reported that his 14yo teenage daughter had runaway from home in Indiana, on June 30th, 2024.
Eventually they discovered her at a friend’s house and transported her to a youth center.But Officer Asumoyide had other ideas.
While at the center he switched off his body camera, and called his personal TextNow line using the female phone, before authoritatively questioning her about her sexual experience and activities, subjects irrelevant to the 911 report.
He then searched her and found a vape pen and took it, telling her he’d be in touch later to give it back. Asumoyide also took down her social media handles before leaving the station.
Then he kept phoning her under the pretext of returning the vaporiser he had taken from her during the search. That same nite, he asked to work extra, claiming that he needed additional time to do some paperwork till about 12 a.m. Instead, The Nigerian-American officer went to the girl’s home, wanted to speak to her privately as if for investigations, then handcuffed and transported her to an empty factory car park in uniform and patrol car.
He uncuffed her there, moved her to the front seat, raped her, cuffed her again and drove her home.
Thankfully she had the courage to tell her family and they took it to the next level and there was an investigation by police in Indiana and the FBI.
Officer Asumoyide was interrogated a week later. He rejected it flatly.
She’s the one that called him on his work phone and he didn’t know how she obtained his number,’ he said. Maybe she’d heard him shout it to a coworker at the youth center.
But a forensic download of his phones revealed he erased chats and searched recently for “how to delete TextMe account” “Delete TextNow account”.
Forensic testing also detected dried semen matching his DNA in the center console of his patrol car. He was later discharged from the Kokomo PD in Indiana.
The former cop was charged with sexual assault and attempted to hinder the investigation based on a trove of evidence.
He was found guilty of kidnapping, misuse of power, sexually assaulting a youngster, lying and tampering with evidence and sentenced to 40 years in jail, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
“This was a horrible episode for the victim,” the Judge said, hoping she is able to heal.
The narrative is getting thicker.
Mr. Sunni Asomuyide had previously had sexual intercourse with a 15yo child while he was a police officer in Portsmouth PD, Virginia, which resulted in his resignation, the FBI revealed.
When he relocated to Indiana he said they found him “hanging” with a 17 year old girl who told him she was 19 and he said he was forced to resign.
This incident also affected his judgement, of course. He was convicted in June 2026 and sentenced to 40 years in November. Asomuyide, 33, will be out in no time, at 73 in the year 2066.
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