Marlborough Man Arrested Again On Child Porn Charges

MARLBOROUGH, MA — A 63-year-old Marlborough man was arrested for the second time on Friday for possession of child porn, according to Marlborough police and Middlesex DA Marian Ryan. Philip Raymond was arrested last March in a separate case for possession of child porn.

The newest charges are connected to Raymond's March 2019 arrest. Last year, police searched Raymond's Marlborough home and found several computer devices with encrypted files. Raymond is an expert in bitcoin and co-chaired the Cryptocurrency Standards Association, according to his Linkedin profile.

After getting a search warrant in December, state police, the U.S. Secret Service, and local officials were able to access those files. Police found explicit images of 11 young girls who Raymond knew, according to a statement released Friday.

"In a folder labeled 'Homemade' were located several other subfolders that were labeled with the names of multiple female children known to the defendant ranging in age from approximately 4 to 12 years old, later identified as the victims in this investigation," a joint press release from the Middlesex DA and Marlborough police said.

Raymond was arraigned Friday on charges of posing a nude child, aggravated rape of a child with force, aggravated indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, and a charge of posing a child in a sexual act, according to the DA's office. He was ordered held on $100,000 bail.

Raymond was indicted on March 28 on three counts of rape of a child by force, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, and possession of child pornography. His next court date in connection to that case is Feb. 20.

In that case, Raymond was accused of assaulting an 8-year-old girl over the course of several years beginning in 2003.