A Wisconsin man was sentenced Wednesday to 7.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to firebombing the office of an anti-abortion group two years ago, the Associated Press reports. Hridindu Roychowdhury, 29, of Madison, also will serve three years on supervised release under the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge William Conley and was ordered to pay nearly $32,000 in restitution.
Roychowdhury admitted to throwing two Molotov cocktails through the window of the Madison office of Wisconsin Family Action on May 8, 2022, less than a week after the leak of a draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s intention to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. He also acknowledged spray-painting the message “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” on the outside of the building. No one was in the office at the time.
Roychowdhury signed a plea deal with prosecutors agreeing to a federal charge of damaging property with explosives.
