A 32-year-old man who posed as a children’s life coach, play therapist and mentor will spend decades in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy after becoming the boy’s life coach.
Frank Raymond on Thursday was sentenced to 29 years in prison after pleading guilty in May to first-degree sexual assault, attempted sexual assault on a child and sexual exploitation.
“This was an outrageous and horrific crime,”17th District Attorney Brian Mason said in a news release. “Sexual assault on a child is disgraceful. This defendant preyed on a young boy under the guise of a mentor and life coach. The boy entrusted this defendant and then he harmed this young child in a deep and profound way.”
Thornton police arrested Raymond — who used the alias “Arya Magi” online — in June 2022 after they found him sleeping with a naked 12-year-old boy in a car parked outside a restaurant, according to the news release. The boy said Raymond was his “life coach” and that they had met at a park a year prior. Investigators found videos on Raymond’s phone showing him sexually abusing the boy.
Police then searched Raymond’s cloud storage account, where they found thousands of files showing sexual abuse of children, according to the news release. A veteran Thornton police detective said the images were the worst she’d seen in 30 years working in law enforcement.
Raymond faced a separate criminal case in Adams County District Court in connection to those images. Online court records show he pleaded guilty to possessing videos of sexual exploitation of children and was sentenced to five years in prison.