Wisconsin Man Pleads Guilty to Firebombing Anti-Abortion Group's Office

Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury faces up to 20 years in prison for the attack, which occurred days after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights.

• Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, pleaded guilty to firebombing the office of Wisconsin Family Action, a conservative anti-abortion group, in May 2022.
• The attack occurred just days after a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion became public.
• Roychowdhury was identified as a suspect after DNA from a partially eaten burrito matched DNA found at the scene of the firebombing.
• He was arrested in March at an airport in Boston while attempting to fly to Guatemala.
• Roychowdhury faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and up to 20 years behind bars, with sentencing scheduled for February 14.

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