After Fleeing Country During Case, Man Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Teen

After attempting to escape to the Philippines while his case was still pending, a Daly City man was sentenced Friday to 32 months in state prison for sexually assaulting a teen girl, prosecutors said.

Shikeb Saddozai, 37, was facing a string of charges, including forcible sex acts with minor, kidnapping and sexual battery, in connection with 2012 allegations made by a 17-year-old victim.

Prosecutors said Saddozai offered to give a teen victim a ride from San Francisco’s Westfield Mall, where Saddozai and the victim worked, to her home in Daly City.

He took the victim to a hot tub and tanning business instead, where prosecutors said he undressed the victim, kissed her and performed sex acts on her.

After his arrest, San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Sean Gallagher said Saddozai fled to the Philippines while his case was pending, but was eventually apprehended by authorities there.

Saddozai allegedly jumped from his three-story condominium in Cebu, hopped multiple fences and bit the ear of a U.S. marshal during his January arrest. In connection with that attack, Saddozai has another case pending.

In August, after his U.S. extradition, Saddozai pleaded no contest to a sex acts charge on the condition that he would serve no more than 32 months in prison. He was sentenced Friday to a 32-month state prison term.

Because he was granted 821 days of credit for time already served, Saddozai will only have to serve a couple months for this sentence before he is potentially released on parole, Gallagher said.

• --Bay City News Service