A former Sarah Lawrence College student on Thursday revealed twisted new details about alleged torture at the hands of her ex-roommate’s father, testifying that he ordered burgers and fries for a snack during a horrific episode that saw her bound, naked, to a chair.
“He told me to strip naked, I did. Briefly, over the course of seven or eight hours, he ended up binding me to a chair, a desk chair in the room and suffocated me with a plastic bag many times,” Claudia Drury, 31, said on her fifth day of testimony at Lawrence “Larry” Ray’s federal sex-crimes trial. “Choking me to the point of passing out twice with a leash and collar I had.”
Drury previously told jurors that Ray—who prosecutors have accused of effectively operating a sex cult by preying on his daughter’s college roommates—coerced her into performing sex work to the tune of millions of dollars over a period of several years.
