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BRIGHAM CITY — A 21-year-old Perry man was sentenced Wednesday in 1st District Court to four consecutive prison terms of five-years-to-life for three counts of rape and one count of forcible sodomy.
Braydon Michael Brailsford pleaded guilty to three counts of rape of three separate victims and one count of forcible sodomy of a fourth victim, all of which are first-degree felonies. The Utah Attorney General's Office announced the sentencings in a statement released Thursday.
The four sentences are also consecutive to another sentence of 5-years-to-life, for a forcible sodomy conviction that was prosecuted by the Box Elder County Attorney's Office. Brailsford is currently awaiting another sentence on a separate case being prosecuted by the Cache County Attorney's Office.
Brailsford admitted to committing the crimes in question between June 8, 2020, and January 2021, in a signed plea agreement. "The defendant engaged in repeated, aggressive and predatory sexual offenses across Northern Utah," the attorney general's office said.
Brailsford used social media to meet and then sexually assault 12 different women between 2016 and 2021, prosecutors said.
Charging documents filed by the attorney general's office in 2019 said Brailsford tried pressuring multiple victims, ranging in age from 14 to 21, into sex on their first meeting. When they refused, he sexually assaulted them, the charges stated; Brailsford was between 16 and 19 years old at the time.
