The Iowa Department of Corrections reports that a man incarcerated in connection with Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree and other crimes in Pottawattamie County, has died from natural causes. 79-year old Donald Warner Brammer was pronounced dead at 4:22 p.m. on Monday, November 5th, at the University of Iowa Hospital where he had been admitted due to chronic illness. His incarceration began on January 12th, 2018.

Donald Brammer (File photo from Pott. County Sheriff’s Office)

Brammer was formerly “foster grandparent” at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands’ Council Bluffs Unit from 2012 to 2015, during which time, according to court documents, he bought his female victim gifts, invited the family for cookouts at his apartment complex and let the girl and her friends have sleepovers in his extra room. The victim said he eventually began to give her what investigators believed to be spiked drinks to make her fall asleep. He would then abuse her while she was alone with him and once locked her in his bathroom.

During his sentencing, Brammer maintained his innocence, and proclaimed he would be dead long before he was eligible for parole at the age of 95.