A “monster”, an “evil genius”: US justice sentenced this Friday to 60 years in prison a sexagenarian guilty of sexual exploitation of students, friends of his daughter, at a small university near New York, in Bronxville.
Lawrence Ray made headlines during his trial last spring when he was found guilty of 15 counts including setting up a sexual “exploitation system,” sex trafficking, assault and violence, forced prostitution of young women, and extorting millions of dollars in dirty money from them. .
“Larry Ray is a monster,” exclaimed Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams, quoted in a statement from the prosecution announcing the 63-year-old man’s 60-year prison sentence.
Since 2010, “for years (…) he seized the consciences and bodies of his victims and extorted millions of dollars from them,” the magistrate thundered.
“Du sadisme. Purement et simply (…) Un génie du mal”, to which judge Lewis Liman was quoted by the New York judiciary press presente à l’énoncé de la condemnation, who saw the sexagénaire une peine de prison forever.
psychological retention
It is the devilish process found by Ray that has long intrigued researchers. Since 2010, the man had broken into his own daughter’s study or dormitory at Sarah Lawrence College, a small liberal arts college in the exclusive northern suburbs of New York.
Installed next to his daughter, Lawrence Ray, alias “Lawrence Grecco”, he has worked for months as a father or protective godfather of several students, gradually gaining their trust.
Then psychological control was tightened through manipulation, deprivation, harassment, humiliation, verbal and physical threats, assaults, according to the testimony of the civil parties in their trial in March and April 2022.
The 60-year-old man was also guilty of extortion, sometimes with money from the parents of his victims, whom he also forced to work and prostitute himself.
In April 2019, a lengthy investigation by a New York magazine, The cut, revealed that at least one administrator at Sarah Lawrence College knew about Lawrence Ray’s misdeeds as far back as 2011, following alerts from parents. A co-defendant of Ray’s, Isabella Pollok, is expected to receive her sentence in February.
Source: BFM TV
