( KRON ) — A North Carolina eye care doctor who was visiting the Bay Area for work in 2023 was convicted Thursday of raping his Tinder date at a SFO hotel, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Nizar Fathallah Saleh Abdelfattah worked as an ophthalmologist in Durham, N.C., when he was at the SFO Marriott Waterfront hotel on Sept. 30, 2023, during a business trip. The 35-year-old used the dating app Tinder to connect with a woman, and the two met up for a drink, prosecutors said.
The woman told Abdelfattah that she was “not interested in hooking up with him,” the DA’s office said, before they took a walk and returned to the Marriott at 1800 Old Bayshore Highway in Burlingame.
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Once inside his room, Abdelfattah forced himself onto the victim and she told him to stop. After the rape, the victim called her friend and immediately reported what happened to police, according to prosecutors…