A Harvard graduate said sex-cult leader Larry Ray forced her to suck on a pacifier, wear a diaper and have sex with strangers.
Felicia Rosario, 39, testified against Ray in federal court Monday, following his arrest in February 2020 for running a sex cult out of his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Rosario said she moved into Ray’s apartment after her brother introduced her to him in 2011. She said initially the relationship was “romantic” but Ray became physically and mentally abusive, often beating her, binding her with zip ties and duct tape, and forcing her to sleep naked with him.
“I felt completely humiliated, degraded, debased – like I was nothing. Like I was dumb-looking, worthless,” she said.
Rosario told jurors that the sex-cult leader would have “someone else in the apartment watch over me to make sure I didn’t get up.”
“He punched me in the face. Slapped me. Pulled me by the hair. Punched me in the stomach. Choked me. Punched me in the head,” she said.
Ray also forced her to have sex with strangers while he filmed the encounters, sometimes sending his co-conspirator, Isabella Pollok, to record.
Rosario said Ray would use the recordings to “threaten” her, saying he would distribute them to alumni of Harvard and Columbia University.
The sex-cult leader forced her to wear a diaper and suck on a pacifier, according to Rosario. “I had to use it. Put it in my mouth. Keep it in my mouth,” she said.
Ray is facing charges including sex trafficking, obtaining forced labor, forced labor trafficking, in addition to several other serious offenses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. If convicted, Ray could face life in prison.
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