Pictures and News on US US ‘cult’ leader Larry Ray given 60 years in prison for sexual and emotional abuse
Pictures and News on US US ‘cult’ leader Larry Ray given 60 years in prison for sexual and emotional abuse.
Larry Ray is a financial fraudster who lured students at an elite New York liberal arts college into a cult-like world of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. He has been sentenced to 60 years on Friday to a Federal Prison
Larry Ray, born Lawrence Grecco, was found guilty in April of sex trafficking and racketeering.
“It was sadism, pure and simple,” Judge Lewis Liman said in handing down the sentence, shortly after saying that Ray, 63, used his “evil genius” to torment his victims.
It was not until a New York magazine feature, That Authorities became aware of his activities.
During Ray’s four-week Manhattan federal court trial – during which he had several medical episodes – prosecutors laid out a chilling chronology of events that started when Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm room around late 2010. Ray engaged in “therapy” sessions with some of her roommates under the false pretense of helping them navigate psychological issues.
Ray cast himself as a “father figure”, and several of the roommates moved into an apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood the following summer. The one-bedroom flat devolved into a house of horrors, they said in their indictment against him.
Ray engaged in still more spurious “therapy” sessions with students, convincing them to reveal deeply “intimate” details about their lives. He subsequently “alienated” several of his victims from their parents and convinced some that they were “broken” and “in need of fixing” – by him, charging papers said
After securing these students’ trust, Ray commenced “interrogation sessions” that mostly involved physical and verbal abuse. He made sure to make false allegations against the students during these sessions, including claims of property damage and, in one preposterous instance, accusations that one victim tried to poison him.
