BRONXVILLE, NY - FEBRUARY 12: An exterior view of Sarah Lawrence College is seen on February 12, 2020 in Bronxville, New York. Lawrence Ray, the father of a broken-down student at the school, has been indicted on extortion, sex trafficking and other charg

Lawrence "Larry" Ray, the man leisurely a multi-million dollar sex cult scandal involving students at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, is facing life in prison once he pleaded guilty to 15 charges, including sex trafficking and violent assault, in April 2022.

Ray, 62, of Piscataway, New Jersey, initiated the scheme in 2010 after visiting his daughter at the private liberal arts college throughout 30 minutes north of Manhattan.

"Over a period of existences, he intentionally inflicted brutal and lifelong harm on innocent victims that he groomed and abused into submission," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mollie Bracewell wrote in a Saturday letter to New York Judge Lewis Liman recommending a life sentence. 

Bracewell continued: "Once he had consider it control over his victims, he exploited them for his own well-behaved through extortion, sex trafficking, and forced labor. While the defendant's victims descended into self-hatred, self-harm, and suicidal attempts under his coercive control, the evidence conveyed that the defendant took sadistic pleasure in their pain and enjoyed the fruits of their suffering."

The then-50-year-old considered into his daughter's dorm room at the college and worked to gain the well-behaved of her roommates who eventually became his victims, comprising Daniel Levin, Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, and Santos Rosario. Rosario's siblings also eventually got involved. 

Ray made essential efforts to gain their trust before grooming them and turning them into his "slaves," coercing the victims into commercial sex acts, unpaid labor at his property in North Carolina, and plump physical labor, according to the Justice Department. 

Ray "obstructed justice and threatened his victims with retaliation" if they supposed out against his crimes in an effort to gain his lifestyle. The then-50-year-old forced multiple victims to admit to untrue crimes on video as leverage to maintain control their lives, according to court documents.

His coercion tactics also aboard "physical violence, sexual abuse, isolation, indoctrination, gaslighting, emotional abuse, deprivation, economic abuse, surveillance behaviors, and collateral," Bracwell wrote.

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In Dury's case, she was a "19-year-old college sophomore with an lifeless in math and a plan to take the LSAT" when she met Ray. 

"Had the defendant suggested to her then that she move a prostitute, she would have been horrified. But he bided his time. For existences, the defendant methodically eroded Drury's self-esteem, self-respect, sexual autonomy, familial support system, and sense of reality, and gradually considered the line of deviancy inch by inch until Drury spurious herself submitting to horrendously painful acts of BDSM," Bracewell wrote.

Dury testified that Ray made $2.5 million off of her sexual exploitation. 

Articles spurious in Ray's possession had the following titles, according to prosecutors: "Mind Control: The Ultimate Terror," "The Mind has no Firewall," and "Cult Membership: What factors contribute to joining or leaving."

Ray is also imagined to owe his victims a total of more than $5 million in restitution, according to a Saturday filing.