A former Memphis Police Department officer stands indicted on charges related to the alleged inappropriate conduct with a teenage girl while on duty in November 2024. Aly Bah faces two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and one count of official oppression after a Shelby County grand jury reviewed his case, as reported by FOX13 Memphis and other local news outlets.
In the incident that led to the charges, Bah allegedly picked up the 15-year-old victim who had run away and, after a lengthy discussion about her future between the parents and her, he offered to drive her around the corner to calm down—a journey that did not have supervisory approval and was marked by conversations of sexual nature, and a request by Bah to keep the dialogue between them a secret before he turned off his body-worn camera—an action that was described in the records from the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) commission, which eventually led to Bah's decertification according to Local Memphis.
According to the court documents, Bah is said to have driven the teen to multiple locations throughout the city, during which he inquired about her sexual activities and made comments about her physical appearance; the girl later told officials that Bah "inappropriately rubbed her chest and asked what color her bra was," an allegation he denied, although he did admit to touching her face in an effort to provide comfort while she was upset, as detailed by Action News 5.
Bah, who resigned from the MPD on March 21, 2025, before his indictment, was taken into custody and subsequently released on a $50,000 bond, court records indicate, despite the gravity of accusations that had already severed his law enforcement career and, perhaps, his relationship with the community he once served; it is a narrative that unfolds in the very structures that demand accountability from those who swore to uphold the law, as evidenced in the POST Commission's swift movement towards his decertification in July 2025.
