A Kirkland man caught trying to arrange the rape of his girlfriend’s daughter during a police sting last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Ryan David Firoved, 37, filed a notice of appeal on Nov. 5, just a few days after he was sentenced by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North on Nov. 1.

A jury found Firoved, a previously convicted child rapist, guilty of first-degree attempted child rape on Oct. 9.

Firoved was arrested on July 5, 2012 when he went to the Baymont Inn in Kirkland expecting to meet his girlfriend and her 9-year-old daughter for a sexual encounter. The woman’s daughter was not at the hotel at the time and the mother was cooperating with the sting, according to police records.

Firoved, who was married to another woman at the time, told his girlfriend that he wanted to have sexual contact with her daughter in phone calls that the Kirkland police recorded, court documents state.

His girlfriend told Kirkland police in June 2012 about the conversations she had with Firoved about sexual encounters he told her about involving himself and minors, one as young as 8-years-old, the documents continue.

“I guess you could say I am a pedophile, but at least I’m not a predator,” he told her, according to charging documents. “People come to me and I make it consensual.”

Firoved then told his girlfriend that he would like to have sex with her daughter. Officers reviewed text messages that confirmed his desire to have sex with the woman’s daughter.

His girlfriend told detectives that she played along, leading him to believe she was in agreement, court documents state.

Seattle police informed Kirkland detectives that they had also investigated Firoved in 1999, when he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old who he met online. Firoved had answered an online ad looking for people who had an interest in exploiting minor female children, but the ad was set up by the Seattle Police Department task force on child sex crimes.

In the recent case, Kirkland police recorded a phone call wherein Firoved stated he wanted to have sexual contact with the woman’s daughter. They also recorded a phone call of the couple setting up the meeting at the Baymont Inn with the woman’s daughter.

During the call, he was very apprehensive about details and paranoid about police, according to court documents. But the woman got him more comfortable by asking him about previous sexual encounters he had experienced with other minors.

When Firoved arrived at the room, detectives arrested him after he attempted to flee.

As he was arrested, he told detectives he was there to break up with his girlfriend but later admitted in a written statement that the content of the recorded phone conversations was “made up, sick and a fantasy” but at the end of the day, he “never touched anyone,” according to court documents.