A San Antonio man who prosecutors say used a fake dating profile to lure a woman and then broke into her home will spend decades in prison after a Bexar County jury found him guilty of a violent bedroom attack in 2023. Jurors convicted Sadaqat Abbasi of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault, and a judge followed up Wednesday with heavy prison time. Prosecutors say the victim had been talking to a fake profile before finding an intruder in her bedroom on Nov. 19, 2023.
According to a news release from Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales’ Office, as reported by KSAT, the judge sentenced Abbasi to 35 years for the burglary conviction and the maximum 20-year term for each of the two sexual assault convictions. Several months after the attack, a hit in a DNA database linked Abbasi to the case and to two other previously unsolved sexual assault investigations, according to the DA’s release.
Investigation and Arrest
Once the DNA hit came through, the investigation widened fast. The Texas Rangers arrested Abbasi in Comal County in March 2025 after forensic evidence tied him to multiple assaults, and investigators say the incidents stretched across Bexar and Travis counties between 2016 and 2023. Authorities asked anyone with information or who believes they might be an additional victim to contact the Texas Rangers at 210-531-2280, per FOX 7 Austin.
Past Police Contact
News archives show a man named Sadaqat Abbasi was arrested in 2017 in Guadalupe County on a stalking charge after a woman reported that items in her residence had been moved on multiple occasions. The San Antonio Express-News reported that Seguin police said Abbasi had been entering the woman’s unit covertly and that forensic evidence was used to identify the suspect, offering earlier context for investigators' findings in the recent cases, according to San Antonio Express-News.
Legal Note
The DA's release emphasized the role of DNA evidence and the jury's findings in the sentence, saying the case is part of a broader push to link unsolved assaults across county lines. As detailed by KSAT, the judge imposed the maximum terms on the sexual assault counts along with a lengthy term for the burglary conviction.
Prosecutors offered no further public comment beyond the written release. Authorities said anyone who believes they may have information should contact investigators so possible victims can be identified and cases evaluated.
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