A former CIA agent who drugged and sexually assaulted many women worldwide over a 14-year period will serve 30 years in jail.
On September 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia declared that 48-year-old Brian Raymond had been sentenced to one count each of compulsion and inducement, abusive sexual contact, transportation of obscene material, and sexual abuse.
Raymond was also mandated to pay $260,000 in reparations to the victims and serve a lifetime of supervised release. The defendant will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release. In November 2023, he entered a guilty plea in federal court.
Prosecutors claim that when Raymond was assigned in Mexico City, he drugged and molested multiple women in government-leased apartments.
He allegedly drugged and recorded twenty-five nude or partially nude victims in Mexico City and other locations between 2006 and 2020. Raymond was shown “touching and manipulating the victim’s bodies while they were unconscious and incapable of consent,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
According to U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, Raymond drugged and seduced “unsuspecting women to his government-leased housing and drugged them. After drugging these women, he stripped, sexually abused, and photographed them.”
The Associated Press claims that Raymond recorded some 500 recordings, some of which show him straddling and touching his victims. He would allegedly open their eyelids and, in some cases, put his fingers in their mouths while they were unconscious.
One victim said in a statement made available to The Associated Press that her “body looks like a corpse on his bed” in the pictures.
“Now I have these nightmares of seeing myself dead,” the victim claimed.
According to reports, one victim had a nervous breakdown, and other victims said that Raymond’s acts had caused them to experience comparable mental health issues.
After allegedly learning about the inquiry, Raymond allegedly attempted to remove the graphic images and videos of his victims.
A news release from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico dated October 20, 2021 states that Raymond was initially charged with sexual assault following the sighting of a nude lady calling for assistance from Raymond’s balcony in Mexico City in May 2020.
After consuming food and drinks from Raymond, the female victim claimed she had no memory of the occurrence, despite Raymond allegedly confessing to having intercourse with her. The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI Washington Field Office began investigating the accusations made against him.
Authorities discovered hundreds of pictures and videos on Raymond’s electronic devices during the course of the inquiry.
The embassy stated that “Almost all of the women in the photos and videos experienced memory loss during their time with Raymond and had no knowledge of the photographs, videos, or any physical contact.”
KNSD-TV reports that detectives discovered that Raymond searched for terms like “vodka & valium” and “Ambien and alcohol and pass out” throughout his online history. It is also said that he sent an email to an internet pharmacy inquiring about the availability of chloral hydrate for insomnia.
Speaking Mandarin and Spanish, the authorities claim that Raymond met many of his victims using dating apps.
The prosecution contended that Raymond was a skilled abuser who had maintained a list of possible victims, categorizing them according to name, race, and physical attributes.
Raymond entered a guilty plea to two charges of sexual abuse and one count of exporting pornographic material in July 2021. Nonetheless, according per the court records, Raymond retracted his plea in April of 2022.
Two counts of sexual abuse, one case of aggravated sexual abuse, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, and one count of coercion and enticement to travel for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual behavior were subsequently brought against him in a prosecution.
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The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico state that Raymond was a longtime CIA employee and a resident of San Diego and Washington, D.C. He supposedly lived in several nations, including Mexico and Peru, and traveled extensively for business and pleasure.
According to the authorities, he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and resided there from August 2018 to May 2020.
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