Lang
6/23/24
The convicted sex offender accused of trying to entice minors on Court Hill Trail in Iowa City has been given a pair of five-year prison terms.
That was the sentence handed down to 30-year-old Brayton Reynolds of Amber Lane by Judge Jason Burns earlier this month.
According to Iowa City Police, in September of last year Reynolds followed two junior high students through Court Hill Park to Memory Gardens Cemetery, where he then approached them and made sexually explicit comments. According to the arrest report, Reynolds offered to perform a sex act on the two males.
One of the victims told police that they had also encountered Reynolds along the trail on the morning of September 8th, with Reynolds making the same proposition.
Police say they located Reynolds walking on Court Hill Trail five days after the second incident. He was allegedly wearing the same outfit from the previous incident. While police were with him, the two victims happened to walk by on their way to school. Both victims identified Reynolds as the man who propositioned them in both incidents.
Reynolds was charged with three counts each of Enticing a Minor Under the Age of 16 for Sexual Purposes and 1st Degree Harassment, as well as one count of Possession of a Controlled Substance.
If convicted on all charges, Reynolds could have been sentenced to up to 22 years in prison.
As part of pela deal, all charges were dropped except two of the Enticing a Minor counts.
The Iowa Sex Offender Registry indicates Reynolds was convicted of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor in 2017. His Dropbox was found to contain three videos of males under the age of 14 engaged in sex acts.