A former Sarah Lawrence student described the years of abuse he endured at the hands of Lawrence Ray—including one harrowing incident where the accused sex cult leader told him to jump out of a window or face getting bashed in the skull with a hammer.
“When [Larry Ray] arrived at Sarah Lawrence in 2010, he was not there to help students improve their lives. He was there to help himself,” Assistant United States Attorney Lindsay Keenan said during opening statements Thursday at Ray’s trial. “He used violence, fear, sex and manipulation to get what he wanted: Sex, money, and power.”
“I ended up confiding in him issues that I had with my family... the depression I struggled with in high school,” Rosario, who was also once Ray’s daughter’s boyfriend, said Thursday. In another harrowing video played in court on Friday, Rosario is seen hitting himself in the face “for over an hour”—at Ray’s direction—to get his sister, FeliciaThe video, filmed by Ray and shot inside his cluttered one-bedroom apartment, is chaotic, featuring Felicia howling as Rosario repeatedly slaps himself in the face and tells her to stop talking and “behaving like a child.
When his mother—who had already given him upwards of at least $200,000 already to pay Ray—refused to give him more money, Rosario said he “grabbed what I could from the cash drawer and took a cab and gave it to Larry.” Later, he said he realized he stole $10,000. Rosario, however, testified Thursday that the worst part of the three-week trip was when Ray forced him and Isabella Pollok to have sex. Prosecutors allege that Pollok was Ray’s “trusted lieutenant” and she is facing conspiracy charges for her role in his scheme.
To ensure their loyalty and silence, Ray also allegedly forced the students to write fake emails and journal entries, give him thousands of dollars—often making them drain their parents’ bank accounts—and even took explicit photos of them.
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