(KNSI) – The second of three men accused of taking a woman off a street in St. Cloud and raping her has been sentenced.
A Stearns County judge sentenced Abdirahin Omar Ali to 30 years in prison. In October, a jury found Ali guilty of kidnapping and three counts of first-degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.
According to the criminal complaint, on October 18th, 2020, Ali, Mohamed Hassan Abdi and Sahal Abdi Hassan grabbed a woman walking in the 700-block of West St. Germain Street in St. Cloud and forced her into a car. The three are accused of sexually assaulting her as they drove around. Investigators say the three men stopped at Haws Park, where the woman was raped. She told police she was forced back into the car and sexually assaulted again.
The woman says at one point, she was able to get out of the car, found a house and knocked on the door for help. According to the complaint, a sexual assault examination was done at the hospital and showed DNA evidence linking the three men to the assault.
25-year-old Sahal Abdi Hassan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for aiding and abetting first-degree criminal sexual conduct earlier this year. Mohamed Hassan Abdi waived his right to a jury trial and will be sentenced in February.
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