Larry Ray is faraway from court docket on a stretcher after a medical emergency.
Alec Tabak for the N.Y.Submit
Accused Sarah Lawrence Faculty intercourse cult chief Larry Ray was rushed out of Manhattan federal court docket on a stretcher Tuesday — hours after his legal professional mentioned he had suffered a seizure within the morning.
Ray, respiratory via an oxygen masks, was wheeled out of the courthouse at about 1:40 p.m. by two FDNY medics, who had been accompanied by US Marshals.
The alleged fiend was strapped right down to the stretcher and had what seemed to be a blood stress cuff velcroed to his left arm as he was loaded into the ambulance, which drove off with lights and sirens on minutes later.
Ray was taken out of the courthouse after his legal professional, Marne Lenox, requested a break within the trial simply earlier than 1 p.m.
Decide Lewis Liman ordered the courtroom closed due to a “medical difficulty” after Lenox requested the recess.
Earlier Tuesday, Lenox informed Liman in court docket that Ray had a seizure Tuesday morning on the Brooklyn jail the place he's being held throughout his trial.
Lenox mentioned he was not hospitalized due to the seizure, however was nonetheless affected by the after-effects of the match.
The trial was delayed for practically two hours Tuesday till Ray was properly sufficient to be introduced into court docket.
“He's properly sufficient he can proceed,” Lenox informed Liman, however requested the trial be paused if he falls unwell in the course of the proceedings.
Ray, sporting a white masks and a beige sweater, sat subsequent to his attorneys at a desk after he was introduced into the courtroom.
He didn't seem bodily unwell because the trial resumed and forensic psychologist Daybreak Hughes took the stand on cross-examination by Neil Kelly, one other legal professional for Ray.
Ray is accused of luring a bunch of faculty college students right into a cult-like prison enterprise that he as soon as described because the “Ray Household,” prosecutors allege.
For 10 years starting in 2010, the 62-year-old allegedly extorted cash from his victims and subjected them to horrific verbal, bodily and sexual abuse.
His crimes included forcing a former pupil, Claudia Drury, into prostitution for greater than a 12 months, based on prosecutors. Ray collected some $2 million in income from the intercourse trafficking, the feds allege.
The primary sufferer to testify on the trial, Santos Rosario, informed jurors Monday that Ray as soon as compelled him and his sisters to put on diapers after he accused them of “appearing like kids.”
Ray additionally compelled Rosario to interact in intercourse acts with Drury in entrance of him, based on testimony.
“He informed Claudia to present me a b–wjob and for me to take off my pants,” Rosario mentioned Monday, including that Ray was “proper subsequent to me” when it occurred.
Ray is charged in a 17-count indictment on counts together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. He faces a most of life in jail, if convicted.
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