Sarah Lawrence ‘sex cult’ leader tormented male victim over his sexuality: witness
Claudia Drury testified that Larry Ray pressured a big intercourse toy into Daniel Levin's mouth.
Alec Tabak
Accused Sarah Lawrence sex-cult chief Larry Ray as soon as pressured a school pupil to shove a big intercourse toy in his mouth, claiming it was a “useful” instructing second, in line with courtroom testimony Monday.
The alleged abuse was photographed on the time — and the twisted snap described on the stand by former Lawrence pupil and Ray accuser Claudia Drury, 31, as she resumed her testimony on the suspect’s racketeering and sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan federal courtroom.
“It was so massive, he’s making an attempt to suit it within the aspect of his mouth,” Drury mentioned, describing the image of the younger man, Daniel Levin, as he struggled with the intercourse toy.
“He appears panicked … not a glance I’ve really ever seen on anybody’s face,” she mentioned of Levin.
Drury mentioned Ray defined the disturbing photograph to her on the time as him making an attempt to assist Levin uncover his sexuality.
“This was all framed as Dan wished to do that,” she mentioned.
Ray informed her he was being “useful and clarifying” to Levin, Drury mentioned.
She informed jurors that in some unspecified time in the future throughout Ray’s alleged abuse of his group of college-age victims, which started within the fall of 2010, he took a eager curiosity in Levin’s sexuality.
Ray informed Drury that he as soon as made Levin don a gown and, whereas sporting it, go to the foyer of his Higher East Facet condominium constructing to retrieve mail that had been delivered, she testified.
Ray’s torment of Levin escalated, with the suspect telling his alleged cohort, Isabella Pollok, at one level to retrieve “her largest” intercourse toy from an array of dildos and different merchandise she saved, Drury testified. The accused fiend then informed Levin to place it in his mouth, and Ray took a photograph of the second, in line with Drury’s testimony.
When Ray confirmed Drury the photograph, Pollok was there and was “very bemused” by the image, the witness mentioned.
Drury’s testimony Monday was reduce quick after about an hour, when the trial broke for the day for an unspecified cause.
Levin, who has not but testified, printed a guide about his expertise with Ray within the fall of 2021.
Authorities have mentioned Ray bodily and mentally abused a bunch of younger individuals after being launched to them by his daughter, then a Sarah Lawrence pupil, in 2010.
That fall, Ray allegedly moved into his daughters on-campus dorm and commenced wowing them with embellished tales about his relationships with highly effective legislation enforcement officers and politicians.
Various the scholars moved in with Ray to a one-bedroom Higher East Facet condominium in the summertime of 2011, the place his sexual and bodily abuse of them allegedly escalated, authorities have mentioned.
Drury testified Friday that over that summer time, Ray steered conversations towards intercourse and commenced to abuse her.
On one event on the condominium, he requested her to masturbate in entrance of him, she mentioned.
“He mentioned he was going to return in his room, and he wished me to complete, however he additionally wished me to be very loud,” she informed jurors.
Ray finally pressured Drury into prostitution and picked up about $2.5 million from her over 4 years, she mentioned Friday.
If convicted, Ray faces a most sentence of life in jail.
He has pleaded not responsible within the case.
Pollock has pleaded not responsible to prices together with racketeering and conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking
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