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Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, pleaded guilty last December
to the attack on Wisconsin Family Action's office in Madison.
The office was empty at the time and nobody was hurt.
In addition to his sentence of 90 months in prison, Roychowdhury
was ordered to pay nearly $32,000 in restitution and will have
three years of probation upon release, according to court
documents. He had faced up to 20 years in prison.
Lawyers for Roychowdhury did not immediately reply to a request
for comment.
Roychowdhury admitted to firebombing the office just days after
a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning
the nationwide right to abortion became public.
Roychowdhury was arrested in March 2023 at an airport in Boston
after authorities said DNA from a thrown-away bag containing a
partially eaten burrito had helped them identify who caused the
May 8 fire.
Prosecutors said that components of a Molotov cocktail were
recovered. Outside the building, someone had spray painted "if
abortions aren't safe then you aren't either."
According to prosecutors, investigators recovered DNA from that
Molotov cocktail, a building window and a lighter that matched
Roychowdhury's DNA.
(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Longmont, Colorado; Editing by
Stephen Coates)
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