Man who sex trafficked and extorted daughter’s Sarah Lawrence schoolmates gets 60 years in prison - NBC News

A New York antheral convicted connected charges that helium moved into his daughter’s dorm country astatine Sarah Lawrence College and abused students astatine the elite schoolhouse successful a astir 10-year scheme was sentenced Friday to 60 years successful prison.

Manhattan national court Judge Lewis J. Liman told Lawrence Ray, 63, that his crimes were "particularly heinous."

Ray was convicted astatine trial last year of charges including racketeering, conspiracy, forced labour and enactment trafficking.

An indictment and prosecutors alleged helium targeted students aft helium moved into his daughter’s on-campus dormitory with her roommates astir 2010, erstwhile they were sophomores, and began "therapy" sessions with immoderate of the students nether the ruse that helium was going to assistance them with their intelligence problems.

One pistillate testified astatine the proceedings that Ray had convinced her that she had poisoned him. She became a enactment idiosyncratic to effort to wage reparations to him, giving him $2.5 cardinal implicit 4 years successful installments that averaged $10,000 to $50,000 a week.

Prosecutors said Ray besides physically abused the woman. During 1 incident, helium tied her to a chair, placed a integrative container implicit her caput and astir suffocated her.

Sarah Lawrence College successful Bronxville, N.Y.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images file

Others testified that they were drawn into Ray’s satellite aft helium told them stories of his past power successful New York City politics, including his relation successful ruining the vocation of erstwhile Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik aft having been the champion antheral astatine his wedding years earlier. Ray had, successful fact, been a fig successful the corruption probe that derailed Kerik’s information to pb the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Court documents stated that immoderate of the students agreed to unrecorded with Ray successful his one-bedroom flat successful Manhattan. He began convincing immoderate of them that they had harmed oregon poisoned him. The students testified that Ray made them bash immoderate helium asked, including springiness him money, arsenic a mode to marque amends. One pupil said helium gave Ray implicit $100,000.

"Larry Ray is simply a monster," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said successful a statement connected Twitter pursuing the sentencing. "For years, helium inflicted brutal and lifelong harm connected guiltless victims. Students who had their lives up of them."

Williams said Ray physically and psychologically abused the students and groomed them "into submission for his ain gain." He past took millions of dollars from them, helium said.

"The condemnation imposed contiguous volition guarantee that Ray volition ne'er harm victims again," the tweet read.

In summation to being sentenced, Ray was ordered to forfeit much than $2.4 million. His co-defendant successful the case, Isabella Pollok, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Feb. 22. The Sarah Lawrence College postgraduate pleaded blameworthy to conspiring with Ray. An indictment said that Pollok assisted Ray arsenic they subjected victims to "sexual and intelligence manipulation and carnal abuse."