At Sarah Lawrence Cult Trial, Bronx Siblings Describe Their Ordeal

Ms. Rosario testified that Mr. Ray accused her of dishonest on him and costing him cash in enterprise offers that had fallen aside whereas he was tending to her. Close to the top of 2012, she stated, she tried to kill herself.

“I felt so responsible, due to the issues that he was saying that I had performed or had participated in that I hadn’t,” Ms. Rosario stated.

Mr. Rosario, in the meantime, admitted to damaging dozens of things in Mr. Ray’s condominium, together with a Viking fridge, a set of Williams Sonoma pots and pans and a pair of binoculars.

He testified that his mother and father gave him cash to pay Mr. Ray for the supposed damages, from a whole lot to hundreds of {dollars}. As soon as, when his mom refused him extra, Mr. Rosario testified, he grabbed $10,000 from the money drawer of the journey company that his mother and father ran.

Over time, Mr. and Ms. Rosario testified, Mr. Ray’s calls for grew weirder.

Mr. Rosario stated that Mr. Ray directed him to have intercourse with Isabella Pollok, a former Sarah Lawrence roommate, who prosecutors stated had turn into Mr. Ray’s “trusted lieutenant” and has been charged with conspiring with him to commit intercourse trafficking, extortion and racketeering. Ms. Rosario testified that Mr. Ray directed her as effectively to have intercourse with Ms. Pollok and to report sexual encounters with strangers.

Mr. Ray additionally sowed division between the siblings, based on testimony and recordings. Ms. Rosario stated that at one level Mr. Ray accused her brother of being jealous and desirous to “destroy” her. Throughout one interrogation session, a recording launched into proof reveals, Mr. Rosario confessed that he had plotted with Yalitza to get Felicia to kill herself.

“I used to like you, Santos,” Felicia Rosario says on the recording.

Throughout what Mr. Rosario referred to in courtroom because the “hammer recording,” Mr. Ray repeatedly ordered him to leap from his condominium window. The recording captures Mr. Ray saying: “Soar, it’ll be over in a second.”

“I need you out, too,” Mr. Ray tells Ms. Rosario. “Why don’t you maintain palms and soar collectively?”