Mohammad Alsayouri
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A Jordanian man accused of raping a Wausau woman who he met on a Muslim dating site and married through Sharia law will go to trial in August.
Mohammad Alsayouri faces three counts of second-degree sexual assault-causing injury. According to the victim, the 37-year-old forced himself on her after she refused his advances, saying “in Islam you can’t rape your wife.” While the couple may have been married “Islamicly,” it was not recorded in the US government records.
The woman went to a hospital for a SANE checkup and reported the incident to the Police. She also noted that Alsayouri had a wife and children in Jordan, and was trying to marry a woman in Canada, despite his previous claims that he was single and childless.
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Alsayouri is also accused of entering the United States illegally at the Mexican border. He was arrested at the Central Wisconsin Airport as he was about to board a flight. He remains jailed on a half-million-dollar bond.
Court records indicate Alsayouri rejected a plea deal earlier this year and requested the case go to a jury trial, which has been scheduled for August 5th-7th. A final pretrial conference is scheduled for July 24th. He faces up to 120 years in prison and $300,000 in fines if found guilty.
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