The federal Department of Justice reported that the father, who spent years romantically and psychologically abusing a group of undergraduate students after relocating into his daughter’s dorm room in New York, received a 60-year jail term on Friday.
Following a press release issued by the US Attorney again for Southern New York, Lawrence Ray, 63, was found guilty of trafficking conspiracy, violent conduct in support of trafficking, blackmail, sex slavery, forced labor, and tax evasion, among money laundering.
The use of methods like “sleep loss, psychical and sexual indignity, verbal harassment, violent threats, violence, dangers of felonious court proceedings, distancing the survivors from their family members, and utilising the victims’ psychological health security problems,” according to the officials, allowed Ray to start abusing college kids and other survivors as early as 2010.
US Prosecutor Damian Williams
Inside the Friday news release, US Prosecutor Damian Williams referred to Larry Ray as a “monster.”
He harmed innocent individuals brutally and permanently for years.
Students who still had their entire lives to live. For his gain, he coerced them into compliance by grooming and abusing them.
Based on a news statement from the administration, he also utilized violence.
According to the prosecution, Ray allegedly tied the client to a couch and almost strangled her by covering her head inside a plastic bag.
According to the press statement, “The children made a payment to Ray by depleting their parents’ finances, establishing credit lines, asking friends and family for donations, selling real estate holdings, and at Ray’s direction, performing unpaid labour for Ray and making profits through prostitutes.” According to Williams, they gave him millions of cash.
Ray was given a lifetime of unsupervised probation in conjunction with the 60-year sentence.
A house in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and $2,444,349 from the purchase of Ray’s GoDaddy portfolio were also ordered to be forfeited.
The amount of reparation the plaintiffs will get has not been decided by the court.
The inquiry, according to prosecutors, was started as a result of a magazine piece from April 2019 titled “The Lost Children of Sarah Lawrence,” which appeared in New York magazine’s The Cut.
The Yonkers-based private liberal arts college has roughly 1,700 students.
