Sarah Lawrence intercourse cult trial is proven disturbing movies of ‘chief’ GRAPPLING with lady

Jurors within the Sarah Lawrence intercourse cult dad case noticed a disturbing video on Tuesday of the accused chief Lawrence ‘Larry’ Ray seize a coed by the neck and slam her to the bottom after which kneel on her again to restrain her as she begs him launch her.

‘Larry, get off of me,’ the girl screams as the 2 battle on the kitchen ground.

Ray, 60, is on trial in Manhattan Federal court docket of intercourse trafficking his daughter’s associates from a dorm room on the campus of the costly suburban liberal arts school. 

Within the video proven Tuesday, the fourth day of the trial, a younger lady, who he referred to as Felicia, seems to attempt to assault Ray in a kitchen, however is restrained by one other lady. 

Prosecutors say Ray held sway over the faculty scholar, forcing a few of them into prostitution and making others put on diapers as punishment.

It is unclear from the video why the younger lady is upset, or when it was shot, however at one level Ray kicks her within the leg whereas she is being held again by one other lady.

He grabs the girl by the throat forcing her backwards, telling her ‘Relax. Put your arms down. Relax. Be peaceable. Keep proper there.’

He tells her that she’s destroyed to many issues and she or he responds, ‘I am a very good particular person.’ 

When she says she needs to put down, he forces her again towards a fridge then places his arm round her neck an sends her crashing to the ground.

The lady threatens to kill herself then begs Ray to not go away her, saying ‘I really like you, Larry. Please do not go away. Please do not go away.’

‘ that I’ve to ship you to the hospital,’ Ray tells her.

It is unclear what the dispute is over, however the younger lady lady seems to be in extreme psychological misery whereas being filmed.

In one other video proven to the jury on Tuesday, Ray interrogates  Claudia Drury, who he pressured into prostitution, netting himself $2 million from her intercourse work, in response to prosecutors.

‘Take a look at you crying,’ Ray taunts the girl. ‘Inform the world the way you simply need to really feel sorry and unhappy. And the way you simply destroy issues and injury all people.’

Drury, who sports activities a chin-length bob and outsized sweatshirt, sits on a settee with tears streaming down her face making an attempt to maintain her composure as Ray continues to mock her.

‘Everybody on the market in Facebookland, are you aware Claudia as a truthful particular person or a liar,’ he asks. ‘Take a look at you ways you’re feeling sorry for your self. You probably did one thing flawed. what’s surprising, astounding and disgusting? You do one thing flawed to another person, you victimize somebody and then you definitely sit there and cry to your self.’

It is unclear on this video as effectively what Ray is grilling the younger lady over, however witness Santos Rosario testified on Monday that his interrogations had been acquainted to everybody within the group.

In one other recording made in September 2015 on the Hudson Lodge, Ray was seen getting thrashed by Frank DiTomasso, the proprietor of a development agency, allegedly in retaliation for Ray’s determination to reveal ties between DiTomasso and disgraced New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. 

Ray did not care a lot for the testimony on Tuesday and the trial was pressured to halt for a number of hours for him to recuperate from a seizure in lockup earlier within the day that he had. 

He was briefly seen to in an ambulance outdoors the courthouse and handled with oxygen, then introduced again inside to renew testimony. 

After Ray returned to court docket, his lawyer informed the choose that he was effectively sufficient to proceed with the trial, however that he might take sick once more. 

On Monday, Santos Rosario, a member of the cult testified that he too suffered below Ray’s withering interrogations.  

‘I do not bear in mind the context or what we had been being blamed for this time,’ he informed the jury. 

‘However Larry mentioned that me and my sister had been supposedly appearing like youngsters and he had Isabella put diapers on us,’ Santos mentioned, referring to Ray’s alleged ‘lieutenant’ and co-conspirator, Isabella Pollok, reported the New York Submit.

Santos mentioned Ray pressured him and sister Felicia to take a seat in his house on the Higher East Aspect in Manhattan carrying nothing however the diapers.

‘We simply waited there till Larry mentioned we may take them off.’ Santos informed the court docket, because the New York Day by day Information reported. 

After that incident, Rosario left the cult, wherein he had been a member for 5 years, and moved right into a homeless shelter, reasonably than proceed to be subjected to Ray’s more and more terrifying ‘interrogations.’

‘I couldn’t take it anymore,’ Santos mentioned of the alleged abuse. ‘These interrogations with Larry began getting scarier and longer. And I couldn’t articulate on the time however I used to be terrified to be there. So I simply regarded for a possibility to run away.’

Santos was launched to Ray in 2010 by his daughter, Talia, whom he was courting on the time. Earlier than lengthy, he discovered himself below Ray’s management, alongside along with his two sisters.

Santos testified that Ray struck him with a hammer, held a knife to his genitals, urged him to commit suicide, and referred to as him ‘scum’ and ‘trash.’

Prosecutors performed a video for the jury that confirmed Santos repeatedly slapping himself within the face at Ray’s path. 

The suspected intercourse cult chief additionally allegedly accused Santos of poisoning him and damaging his property as a part of a plot to extort cash out of the youthful man.

Santos testified on Monday that on one event, when he accompanied Ray to a resort to gather cash that Drury had earned from the intercourse work, the accused cult chief made the girl carry out a intercourse act on Santos whereas he sat subsequent to them and watched.

‘He informed Claudia to offer me a b***job and for me to take off my pants,’ Santos testified. 

On three separate event, Santos informed the court docket that Ray additionally made him have intercourse along with his aide, Isabella Pollock.

On cross-examination, the protection sought to painting Santos as an unreliable witness by dredging up his historical past of psychological well being struggles.

Santos mentioned that after leaving the cult in 2015, he stored his distance from Ray for 4 years, till in 2019, when he was contacted by journalists from New York journal who had been engaged on a narrative in regards to the intercourse cult.

Santos mentioned he reached out to Ray to speak in regards to the article and ended up falling below his affect once more.

In 2010, Ray – actual identify Lawrence Grecco – moved into his daughter Talia’s dorm room at school simply north of New York Metropolis.

Contemporary out of jail following costs associated to a custody battle along with his ex-wife, Ray slept on a dorm room sofa and, prosecutors allege, set about dominating the lives of a gaggle of his daughter’s associates.  

Assistant US Legal professional Lindsey Keenan started her opening assertion final week with an outline of a ugly October 2018 alleged assault.

Keenan mentioned Ray and one other lady who served as his ‘trusted lieutenant’ discovered the sufferer that they had ‘pressured into a lifetime of prostitution’ at a resort, the place Ray tortured her for hours to ensure she’d proceed her intercourse work.  

The prosecutor mentioned Ray used ‘violence, worry, intercourse and manipulation’ to realize intercourse, energy and cash. 

Ray’s lawyer informed the jury that Ray dedicated no federal crimes as he encircled himself with college-age ‘storytellers’ who claimed to have poisoned him and organized to have him bodily attacked.

‘You will see that Larry Ray isn’t responsible,’ lawyer Allegra Glashausser mentioned.

Ray, who as soon as served as one of the best man at a marriage of disgraced former New York Metropolis police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, has been incarcerated since his 2020 arrest. 

Ray is a well known New York scammer with a murky previous. Along with spending instances behind bars for his position in a securities fraud rip-off, he has labored on Wall Avenue, owned nightclubs, been an FBI informant and inserted himself in into highly effective networks by brokering conferences.

After being launched from jail in 2010 following a six month incarceration for breaching the phrases of his custody settlement along with his ex-wife, he moved in to his daughter Talia’s school house whereas she was learning at Sarah Lawrence Faculty in Bronxville, New York.

Over the following 4 years, he drove her and her associates aside by manipulating them into disturbing alleged situations which embrace a number of suicide makes an attempt, lawsuits, intercourse in entrance of him and self-harming. 

The allegations had been specified by a prolonged article by New York journal’s The Lower in 2019, consists of accounts from a number of the purported cult members.

The problems started in September 2010 when Ray was launched from jail after six months. He was jailed for contempt of court docket for disobeying a choose’s order relating to his custody settlement along with his ex-wife. 

He had beforehand been sentenced to 5 years of probation for his position in a securities fraud rip-off.

Ray moved in to the roommates’ house and at first charmed them by cooking meals and infrequently taking them out for dinner, paying for the outings with a wad of money that he carried in a backpack.

‘He did all of our cleansing and positively took on the dad position in the home,’ Juli Anna, mentioned.

At first, he slept on an air mattress in Talia’s room however earlier than lengthy, he was sleeping in the identical room as Isabella, his daughter’s 19-year-old greatest pal who was going by way of a break-up and was teaching her, claiming she ‘wanted’ him.

Regularly, he started to exert management over the group, they mentioned.

In response to a number of the former roommates, Ray roped all of them into what he framed to be a ‘self enchancment’ program.

It quickly concerned them participating in group ‘classes’ in the lounge the place he would counsel them and inform them that they had been introduced collectively by their shared obsession with suicide, one recalled.

One concerned them having to elucidate their previous habits and, at instances, apologize to him for issues he informed them that they had carried out to him.

It was such an efficient type of brainwashing, they recalled, Daniel Barban Levin as soon as agreed to have Ray tie a ‘garrote’ of aluminum foil round his penis and testicles and tighten it.

He pressured Daniel, who was confused about his sexuality, to have intercourse with Isabella, in entrance of him on a number of events and as soon as invited a pal to look at, Daniel claimed.

He satisfied Drury that she was schizophrenic, they mentioned, and made her obsessive about the Marines.

Santos had tried to kill himself as soon as earlier than assembly Ray however, in response to those that spoke to The Lower, his issues worsened because of their contact.

Even when Daniel and Claudia traveled to England to check overseas, they might Skype Ray and, in response to Daniel, have intercourse on digital camera for him.

In response to Juli Anna, Claudia was initially suspicious of him however ‘snapped’ after they began assembly privately and have become obsessive about the Marines.

She would begin posting on Fb in regards to the navy, in response to associates, and spoke all the way down to her dad and mom at any time when she visited them.

Over the course of their friendship with Ray, three of the ladies – Claudia, Isabella and Santos’ sister Yalitza tried to kill themselves.

All of them swallowed bottles of Tylenol drugs and mentioned afterwards that they felt badly about how that they had handled him.

Santos, whose dad and mom say they gave Larry $200,000 over the course of three years, went to a psychological well being facility and has additionally hung out in a homeless shelter.

Claudia was one of many worst affected. Over the course of their years-long relationship, she grew to become satisfied by Ray that she owed him cash and even began working as a prostitute to repay him, in response to The Lower.

Ray didn’t deny it, telling The Lower that she gave him her escort earnings and mentioned he was ‘happy’ she had began paying him again.

She additionally appears to have been satisfied by him that she poisoned him, Talia, Isabella and Felicia and even made a video ‘confession’ the place she mentioned, after being prompted by him, that she had tried to kill them.