After being pressured by Mr. Ray, Ms. Drury testified, she sent a letter to that professor and to a dean, retracting her “fears and concerns about Larry being a bad, dangerous, manipulative and sexually deviant man” who was carrying on an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with Ms. Pollok.
Ms. Pollok was among several students who spent the summer after their sophomore year living with Mr. Ray in an apartment in Manhattan. Mr. Ray began threatening and assaulting the students and subjecting them to lengthy interrogations, according to testimony in his trial, badgering them into admitting to a host of invented infractions.
That behavior continued about a decade, according to testimony, as young people including Ms. Pollok went on to live with Mr. Ray in North Carolina and New Jersey.
Santos Rosario, who was the victim of the hammer blow, testified during Mr. Ray’s trial that Ms. Pollok kept a catalog of video confessions on her computer and said that he handed over thousands of dollars as reimbursement for property he had falsely admitted damaging. He added that Mr. Ray directed him several times to have sex with Ms. Pollok, saying that experience made him feel “like I wasn’t in control of my life.”
One of Mr. Rosario’s sisters, Felicia Rosario, testified that Mr. Ray ordered her to have sex with strangers and sometimes told Ms. Pollok to record those encounters, adding: “He would send Isabella with me to make sure that we actually got the video the way he wanted it.”
Ms. Drury testified that Ms. Pollok regularly collected her prostitution proceeds. Sometimes she showed up with Mr. Ray at Manhattan hotels where Ms. Drury was meeting clients, she said.
One evening at the Gregory Hotel in Midtown, she testified, Mr. Ray handcuffed her, naked, to a chair, interrogated her, placed the plastic bag over her head and choked her with a leash and collar. Ms. Drury said that Ms. Pollok mocked her and recorded her “lying to tell him what I thought he wanted to hear” as Mr. Ray questioned her.