26-year-old Brandon Bonds sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl in Harris County Texas while he was at work at a customer’s home. Brandon was a plumber, he molested the girl while his boss was upstairs with the customer. On February 10, 2022 Brandon admitted to molesting the young girl.
On August 25, 2018 Brandon and his boss, a master plumber, were working on a garage apartment at the victim’s family’s home. The young girl was watching television in the living room.
The girl’s father was the customer and he asked the master plumber to come check on an upstairs bathroom, the father locked the back door, leaving Brandon outside. But Brandon was able to get the girl to unlock the door to let him in and then proceeded to molest her.
After the plumbers left, the child told her parents what happened.
The girl was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital where she was examined by a sexual assault nurse examiner, who collected evidence and interviewed the girl.
The evidence against Brandon included DNA from the victim’s body and forensic evidence from his phone that showed that he recorded the incident on video. That video was deleted, but investigators with the District Attorney’s Digital Forensic Investigations Unit were able to recover evidence that it existed.
Brandon pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony, instead of facing a jury in a trial for the incident.
Brandon was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
