Sex cult leader made students wear nappies because they were 'acting like children'

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trial of alleged sex cult leader Larry Ray, appeared to show him grab a young girl around the neck, throw her to the floor and kneel on her as she begged for mercy.Ray, 60, moved into his daughter’s dorm at prestigious New York university Sarah Lawrence College and set himself up as the “father” of her housemates – providing expensive meals and cab rides after nights out.“He did all of our cleaning and definitely took on the dad role in the house in a big way,” one of the students said.But his behaviour soon took a sinister turn.US District Attorney Geoffrey Berman told Manhattan Federal Court that Ray “subjected his victims to almost unspeakable abuse”.The court was told that Ray tied one young student to a chair and placed a plastic bag over her head, almost suffocating her.He later coerced her into prostitution, demanding $500,000 [£380,000] of her earnings, which he laundered though his internet domain company.Mr Berman described how Ray gained his victims’ trust with gifts and “group therapy sessions” but then later falsely accused the impressionable students of “harming him by attempting to poison him or to deliberately damage his property”.Ray demanded money from them, encouraging them to drain their parents’ bank accounts, Mr Berman said, forcing them into making payments “they did not actually owe and could not possibly afford”Ray, who is charged with sex-trafficking, extortion, money laundering, violent crime in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and forced labour, suffered a seizure in court on Tuesday – delaying proceedings for several hours.One witness, Santos Rosario, claimed that on one occasion, Ray made his 'trusted lieutenant” Isabella Pollok put nappies on him and his sister Felicia as a.