Colorado man convicted of sexually abusing 12-year-old girl

A 32-year-old man who posed as a child coach, play therapist and mentor will spend decades in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy after becoming the boy’s coach.

Frank Raymond was sentenced to 29 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty in May to first-degree sexual assault, attempted sexual assault of a child and sexual exploitation.

“This was an outrageous and horrific crime,” 17th District Attorney Brian Mason said in a press release. “Sexual abuse of a child is outrageous. This defendant abused a young boy under the guise of a mentor and life coach. The boy trusted this defendant and he subsequently harmed this young child in a profound and profound way.”

Thornton police arrested Raymond — who goes by the alias “Arya Magi” online — in June 2022 after they caught him sleeping with a naked 12-year-old boy in a car parked outside a restaurant, the news release said. The boy said Raymond was his “life coach” and that they had met a year earlier in a park. Detectives found videos on Raymond’s phone of him sexually abusing the boy.

Police then searched Raymond’s cloud storage account, where they found thousands of files showing child sexual abuse, the news release said. A senior Thornton detective said the images were the worst she had seen in 30 years on the force.

Raymond faced a separate criminal case in Adams County District Court in connection with those images. Online court records show he pleaded guilty to possessing videos of child sexual exploitation and was sentenced to five years in prison.