The 63-year-old had terrorised students at the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College and forced them into prostitution.
« : »Convicted sex cult leader Lawrence Ray was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Manhattan federal court on Friday for terrorising Sarah Lawrence College students and forcing them into prostitution. The 63-year-old was convicted in April of mentally and physically abusing a small group of students at the prestigious Westchester County school between 2010 and 2020. Describing Ray as “evil”. US District Judge Lewis Liman said Ray’s crimes were “distinctive” and “particularly horrible”. He said he wanted to make sure Ray spent the rest of his years in prison and “is never released”. “He degraded them sexually to the point where they lost any sense of self worth,” the judge said. “He extorted them, he forced them to engage in labour, and he sex trafficked one of them all for his profit and sadistic and persevere sexual pleasure.” “It was sadism.
