Chris PerezSitting in the front row of an otherwise empty courtroom gallery, Glenn Braden's mother looked devastated as she watched her
In court on August 17, a preliminary hearing date was set for September 8 as Senior Deputy District Attorney Darren Kafka handed down four counts of unlawful sexual conduct, nine counts of indecent exposure, one count of attempted sexual assault and one count of criminal mischief in the new charging document. The charges are related to eleven separate events and victims, according to the DA's office.
Braden is accused of being the culprit in at least eleven incidents in which female hikers were accosted by a naked man or saw the man. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office received the first report on April 3, after Braden allegedly targeted a woman walking solo along a trail in Flying J Ranch Park in Conifer; he groped himself in front of the hiker and grabbed her buttocks.