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GRESHAM, Ore. — A Portland man accused of attacking a woman inside a Gresham Sikh Temple while drunk has a criminal history including three DUII convictions, according to court documents. Timothy Walter Schmidt is in the Multnomah County jail facing seven charges. The most serious being sex abuse and attempted rape, and he will face a Multnomah County judge on Tuesday afternoon. Gresham police say the 37-year-old was drunk when he asked to use the bathroom around 10 PM Sunday, March 26, 2017. Sikh Temple members let him inside. Police say he then found a 26-year-old woman in the building and attacked her. Police say another temple member heard the attack, and pulled Schmidt off the woman - holding him down until police arrived. It is not clear if religion or ethnicity played a role in the attack, but that is something police are looking into. No one at the Sikh Temple wanted to comment on what happened. A search of Schmidt's criminal history returned DUII convictions in 2007, 2013 and 2015. http://katu.com/news/local/sikh-temple-attack-suspect-has-criminal-history-involving-alcohol =================== This is evil and sickening in a Sikh gurdwara? A White guy tore pages out of SGGS Ji recently, A few gurdwara's been attacked since 9/11, A white terrorist shot a singh in Seattle a few days ago. A white terrorist murdered 8 Sikhs in 2012 in gurdwara in Wisconsin and now its this attempted rape and sexual assault on a sister? How long will American Sikhs tolerate this anti-sikh attacks before they started to grow a pair and do something physically about defending their people and places of worship?