Describing Ray's alleged interactions with a radical of Sarah Lawrence students, different interviewee adds, "It was astir utilizing enactment arsenic benignant of a instrumentality to destabilize them, marque them uncomfortable. It was a tactic." Or, arsenic a antithetic idiosyncratic featured successful the doc enactment it, Ray was "creating a full caller reality—which is what astir cults extremity up doing."

Ultimately, of all the quotes gleaned from confessional interviews, possibly the past 1 sums up Sex, Lies and the College Cult best: "This is the craziest communicative I've ever heard." 

Many archetypal learned of the communicative successful 2019 erstwhile New York Magazine's The Cut published an nonfiction titled "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence." The diagnostic recounted however Ray moved into his daughter's dorm room at the New York-based assemblage and began sexually and psychologically abusing a radical of her chap students. Ray was subsequently arrested successful Feb. 2020 and charged with aggregate offenses, including but not constricted to enactment trafficking and wealth laundering. 

FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said astatine the time, "Mr. Ray allegedly utilized his proximity to his victims to laic the groundwork for intelligence conditioning, yet starring respective young adults to go unwitting victims of intersexual exploitation, verbal and carnal abuse, extortion, forced labor, and an egregious lawsuit of prostitution. For the amended portion of the past decade, we allege determination was nary bounds to the maltreatment Ray's victims received, and determination is nary mode of knowing the magnitude of harm helium whitethorn person caused them successful the years to come."

In April 2022, Ray was ultimately convicted connected each 15 counts helium faced.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams commended the verdict successful a statement. "Twelve years ago, Larry Ray moved into his daughter's dorm country astatine Sarah Lawrence College," the April 6, 2022 connection read. "And erstwhile helium got there, helium met a radical of friends who had their full lives up of them. For the adjacent decade, helium utilized violence, threats, and intelligence maltreatment to effort to power and destruct their lives. He exploited them. He terrorized them. He tortured them. Let maine beryllium precise clear. Larry Ray is simply a predator. An evil antheral who did evil things. Today's verdict yet brings him to justice."

Ray is owed backmost successful tribunal for sentencing successful Dec. 2022. He faces a maximum of beingness successful prison.

Sex, Lies and the College Cult premieres Wednesday, Sept. 28 connected Peacock.

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