Sick bastard!
and what did his daughter know?
Sarah Lawrence Parent Accused of Sex Trafficking and Abusing Students
Lawrence Ray was charged with moving into his daughter’s dormitory and targeting her friends for exploitation.
By Benjamin Weiser
Feb. 11, 2020
Updated 11:20 a.m. ET
A former convict from New Jersey has been charged with targeting his daughter’s friends at Sarah Lawrence College for indoctrination and exploitation, engaging in sex trafficking, extortion and forced labor, according to an indictment released on Tuesday.
Shortly after the man, Lawrence V. Ray, left prison about a decade ago, he moved into his daughter’s dormitory at the elite college in Yonkers, N.Y., and began manipulating her friends and others, the indictment said. Over the course of nearly a decade, Mr. Ray “subjected his victims to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse.”
He is accused of extorting money and unpaid labor from several young adults who came under his sway and had at least one engage in prostitution for his financial benefit. The extortion came after he extracted false confessions from his victims, through tactics like sleep deprivation, psychological and sexual humiliation, verbal abuse, physical violence and threats of legal action, the indictment charged.
Mr. Ray, 60, was also accused of laundering about $1 million he obtained from his victims, the indictment said. He was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in Piscataway, N.J.
The investigation that led to the charges against Mr. Ray was prompted by an article in New York magazine in April titled “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” a law enforcement official said.
The charges were to be announced by Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., head of the F.B.I. office in New York, at a news conference later on Tuesday. Mr. Ray also is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan.
Mr. Ray once traveled in circles with figures like Bernard B. Kerik, the disgraced former police commissioner of New York, and was best man at his wedding and paid for much of the event, according to news reports. Mr. Ray played a central role in the state and federal prosecutions of Mr. Kerik and previously acted as an informant for the F.B.I., law enforcement officials said.
In the New York Magazine article on Mr. Ray last year, Mr. Kerik was quoted as saying: “Larry Ray is a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he’s ever had. It’s been close to 20 years since I last heard from him, yet his reign of terror continues.”
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