Colorado man convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old

A 32-year-old man who posed as a child 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 was sentenced Thursday to 29 years in prison after pleading guilty in May to first-degree sexual assault, attempted sexual assault of a child and sexual exploitation.

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

Thornton police arrested Raymond — who used the online alias “Arya Magi” — in June 2022 after they found 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 in a park a year earlier. Investigators found videos on Raymond’s phone that showed him sexually abusing the boy.

Police then searched Raymond’s cloud storage account, where they found thousands of files showing child sexual abuse, according to the news release. A veteran detective with the Thornton Police Department said the images were the worst she had seen in 30 years in law enforcement.

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