Child Sex Offender Accused of Head-Butting Corrections Officer

Brandon Niford. Credit: Illinois Department of Corrections.

An Aurora man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl over a period of three years faces new charges after allegedly assaulting a corrections officer.

Brandon Niford, 30, was convicted in May of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and in July was sentenced to 15 years in prison for abusing the girl, who was younger than 13 at the time of the crimes.

Prosecutors said Niford sexually assaulted the girl between February 2007 and February 2010.

Kendall County police said Niford was at the Kendall County Corrections Center in Yorkville on Saturday for an unrelated court appearance when he allegedly attacked a corrections officer.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Kendall County jail, where Niford, who was in IDOC custody, allegedly head-butted a correctional officer.

Police said he was charged with aggravated battery to a correctional employee.

According to IDOC, Niford is serving his sentence at the Western Illinois Correctional Center in Mount Sterling, Illinois. His projected parole date is February 2026.

Niford previously served time for an aggravated sex abuse conviction stemming from a 2007 incident in which he gave a 16-year-old girl alcohol, then assaulted her after she passed out, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Niford is a registered sex offender and is categorized as a sexual predator.