A quiet Minnesota home became the center of a horrifying domestic violence case after a cheating allegation spiraled into a knife attack that nearly ended a woman’s life. Now, a Farmington man will spend 20 years in prison after admitting to stabbing his wife repeatedly during an April 2025 assault.
Mehdi Badaoui, 53, was sentenced in Dakota County District Court to 240 months behind bars after pleading guilty to first-degree attempted murder. The sentence closes one part of a disturbing case, but the details behind it still leave a heavy question hanging over the story. How does suspicion inside a marriage turn into a scene so violent that police, prosecutors, and witnesses later describe it as nearly deadly?
A 20-Year Sentence After a Violent Morning
Badaoui received his sentence after prosecutors said he attacked his wife inside their Farmington home on April 15, 2025. He had already pleaded guilty in March 2026 to one count of first-degree attempted murder, a charge tied to an assault that left his wife with potentially life-threatening injuries.
The court gave him credit for 416 days already served in custody, but the prison term still stands as a long consequence for a brutal act. Dakota County officials said the victim survived after being stabbed multiple times and rushed for emergency medical care…