Man who lived in daughter’s Sarah Lawrence College dorm convicted of sex trafficking, forced labor and other federal crimes

“Twelve years in the past, Larry Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm room at Sarah Lawrence School,” US Lawyer Damian Williams mentioned within the information launch. “And when he obtained there, he met a gaggle of pals who had their complete lives forward of them. For the following decade, he used violence, threats, and psychological abuse to attempt to management and destroy their lives. He exploited them. He terrorized them. He tortured them. Let me be very clear. Larry Ray is a predator. An evil man who did evil issues.”

The intercourse trafficking conviction comes with a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years and a most of life in jail.

He extorted funds from victims after getting them to make false confessions about inflicting damages to him, his household and associates, in accordance with the indictment. Victims drained their mother and father financial savings, opened credit score traces and offered actual property possession to pay Ray. He additionally directed the victims to do unpaid labor for him and earn cash for him via prostitution.

Ray pressured one lady to interact in business intercourse acts to pay damages to Ray — cash she by no means owed, in accordance with the US Lawyer’s Workplace. Ray groomed her when she was a university pupil and picked up sexually express images and different data to coerce her to commit extra business intercourse acts, the workplace mentioned.

In a single occasion of Ray’s alleged brutality, he tied the girl to a chair, put a plastic bag over her head and practically suffocated her, in accordance with the indictment. He collected tens of millions of {dollars} of pressured prostitution proceeds from this sufferer, in accordance with the US Lawyer’s Workplace.