A Beaverton man convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in a sparse apartment that prosecutors said he rented to carry out the attacks was sentenced Tuesday to the equivalent of a true life term.
Ali Quraishi, 34, was convicted last fall of nearly two dozen counts of rape, sexual abuse, sodomy and other felonies stemming from attacks on nine women he met through his job at two Portland nightclubs — Silverado PDX and Stag PDX, where he worked as a dance manager.
Washington County Circuit Judge Erik Buchér found Quraishi guilty of 23 charges at the conclusion of a seven-day trial last November.
On Tuesday, Quraishi returned to court in orange jail scrubs, his legs and wrists shackled and his family seated in the gallery.
He stared ahead as several of the women spoke in person and by phone. One woman submitted a written statement to Buchér. The women were identified in court by their initials.
All nine women had testified at his trial about the assaults, which occurred from 2016 through 2023. He plied them with alcohol and other intoxicants, prosecutors said.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting eight women and physically assaulting one woman.
Allison Brown, a senior Washington County deputy district attorney, wrote in court records that Quraishi documented his “sexual conquests,” referring to the document as a “stripper journey.”
Brown said multiple victims awoke from unconsciousness to find Quraishi “hitting them or punching them in the face.”
She said he carried out his “devious plan” in a mostly empty Cedar Mill apartment that he rented for the assaults and had stocked with “massive amounts” of black sheets.
Brown, a prosecutor for nearly two decades, called it “one of the most prolific sexual assault cases that I’ve seen.”
She said the victims did not know each other, yet their accounts bore striking similarities.
During the sentencing, the women described the trauma of the assaults and the aftermath.
“He made me feel unsafe, not just on that night but for years to come,” one woman said. “I thought I would be able to defend myself against someone attacking me, but I couldn’t.”
She said Quraishi ignored her pleas to stop.
“We’re told that no means no,” she said. “All you have to do is say no and that would be enough to stop someone. I said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘I’m not having sex with you.’ I said, ‘Stop it.’ He didn’t listen. He knew exactly what he was doing when he raped me.”
Another woman said the lingering trauma interrupted her nursing school plans. She lost her focus and confidence, she said.
“I lost the future that I had worked so hard to build,” she said. “Nursing school, the very thing I poured my heart and soul into, was put to a halt. I was forced to take a break from my academic pursuits. Suddenly, I wasn’t just grieving what had happened to me. I was grieving the life I had spent years creating.”
Jason Thompson, Quraishi’s lawyer, said Quraishi graduated from Sunset High School and at one point wrote a book that he hoped would be turned into a movie. When that failed, Thompson said Quraishi turned to the adult entertainment industry, where he worked for nearly a decade.
Quraishi did not give a statement before he was sentenced.
Buchér imposed a sentence of 1,750 months in prison, or more than 145 years — a de facto life sentence.
Unlike the punishment for a murder conviction, which comes with the possibility of parole after 25 years, Quraishi was sentenced to consecutive mandatory minimum terms that don’t include a shot at parole in the future.
The investigation into Quraishi began in the spring of 2022.
Beaverton police Detective Maggie Brown, who led the investigation, attended his sentencing.
As Quraishi waited for deputies to escort him from the courtroom and back to jail, the women filed out of their seats in the gallery, stopping briefly to hug the detective.
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