Teacher's aide pleads guilty to sexually-related charge

GOLDEN – A teacher's aide at a Jefferson County elementary school pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of Internet luring of a child.

Frank Pierce, 31 of Golden, was arrested in November after in an undercover investigation where the Jefferson County District Attorney's office says he used sexually explicit language online to someone he believed to be an underage teen, but was actually an undercover investigator.

Pierce was an aide at Stober Elementary School in Lakewood and was also a girls' basketball coach in a youth recreation league.

Pierce met the person he believed to be a young teen in a chat room and used sexual language to describe what he wanted to do and suggested they meet in person, according to prosecutors.

Pierce will be sentenced in August and faces up to six years in prison.