Brastain Joseph Hilbert, 26, of Scott County was booked into the Scott County Jail on September 14, 2026, according to the Scott County Sheriff's Office inmate profile, which lists the name in that first-middle-last order. The office lists seven charges under docket number FECR462075: assault with intent to commit sexual abuse; dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to a minor; false imprisonment; grooming; two counts of lascivious acts with a child; and two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree. The roster does not list a bond amount.

Iowa Code § 709.11 (assault with intent to commit sexual abuse) covers an assault committed with intent to commit sexual abuse; it is a Class "C" felony if the assault causes serious injury, a Class "D" felony if it causes a lesser bodily injury, and an aggravated misdemeanor if no injury results. The booking record does not indicate which level applies here.

Iowa Code § 709.8A, enacted in 2024, makes grooming a Class "D" felony. It covers knowingly acting in person, through a third party, or by electronic or written communication to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child, or a person believed to be a child, to commit or engage in unlawful sexual conduct.

Iowa Code § 709.8 (lascivious acts with a child) covers a person 16 or older performing specified acts with a child for the purpose of arousing or satisfying sexual desire, including fondling or touching, causing a child to touch the person, or soliciting a sex act; violations are a Class "C" or Class "D" felony depending on the specific act. Iowa Code § 709.4 (sexual abuse in the third degree) covers a sex act performed by force or against the other person's will, or under other specified circumstances, and is a Class "C" felony.

Iowa Code § 728.2 covers dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to minors; a first offense is a serious misdemeanor, escalating to an aggravated misdemeanor and then a Class "D" felony on later offenses, and the offense carries Tier I sex-offender registration. Iowa Code § 710.7 defines false imprisonment as intentionally confining another person against that person's will without a reasonable belief in any right or authority to do so; it is a serious misdemeanor.

No independent local news coverage of this booking was found at the time of writing.

Hilbert has been charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. The booking record describes allegations; it does not establish what happened.