A Spokane man convicted of kidnapping and raping his wife was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 13 years in prison.
Tarek M. Mohamaed, 38, was convicted by a jury on Oct. 2 of first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment, tampering with a witness and violation of a no-contact order in connection to an attack in his home in June 2025.
In that case, Mohamaed attacked his wife after she declined his advances. The couple's daughter heard Mohamaed and her mother fighting before she was able to call 911.
"The victim told responding officers that Mohamaed dragged a knife along her body from her neck, over her chest to her inner thighs, leaving cuts, and beat and strangled her, before raping her," according to a news release from the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office. "After an investigation, law enforcement arrested Mohamaed."
At the sentencing hearing, the wife told the judge that she had endured years of violence leading up to the incident. She noted that the day her husband gets out of prison, "I stop breathing," according to the release.
Prosecutors sought an exceptional sentence of 24 years, plus a two-year deadly weapons enhancement.
Superior Court Judge Breean Beggs imposed a sentence of 129 months plus 24 months for using a deadly weapon in commission of a crime, for a total of 153 months, or just shy of 13 years.
Beggs also sentenced Mohamaed another year for tampering with a witness and a year for violating a no-contact order. But those sentences were to run concurrently, or at the same time, as the 13-year sentence.
Upon his release, Mohamaed must remain in community custody for life, register as sex offender and have no contact with the victim or her daughter for life.
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