US ‘cult’ leader given 60 years in prison for sexual and emotional abuse

Larry Ray convicted in April of sex trafficking and racketeering stemming from abuse of young women at Sarah Lawrence College

This article contains descriptions of abuse.

A financial fraudster who lured students at an elite New York liberal arts college into a cult-like world of sexual, physical and emotional abuse was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in federal prison.

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