How a sex cult was formed in a college

Hello, hello

Imagine this, you're on your way to work, after dropping of your kid. You're thinking about all the tasks you have to do when you get to the office, when, suddenly you receive an email. You recognize the name of the sender, it's Claudia a classmate of yours from 10 years ago. You click the link, and the first thing that pops up is a escort profile of Claudia telling you all about her rates and what she does. You gotta do what you gotta do that's for sure but... wow. Theres another tab in the website, now you're curious, you click it.

Now she's telling you all about how she's a poisoner, and poisoned another classmate, Talia and Talia's dad. There's a video also. You see Claudia sitting facing the camera, like she's being interviewed, a man's voice urges her to tell everyone what she did. She answers, telling everything that she poisoned, with the goal of killing him. Talia's dad. The man that started the sex cult.

Who's this man?

Talia's dad, or rather Lawrence Rey knows a lot of important people, mostly politics. If you asked his daughter, Talia, about him she would tell you how he was in the Marines, and worked with the CIA and other very important things. The problem? He was in jail because, according to her, he knew too much about the 9/11. True? Maybe. Her roomates (7, if you count the girlfriend of one of the boys of the dorm 8) let Talia speak about her dad because, well, it's not like they are going to talk with man. Until one day, Talia enters the kitchen and informs them that her dad is leaving jail tomorrow and ask's them if they mind if her dad moves in "just for a couple of days" until he can find a place. They agree.

The beggining of 10 years of abuse

One of the roomates and ex-cult member, Dan, tells us in his book that in the beggining having Talia's dad there was quite nice. They would come home and the smell of homemade food (most of the times steak!) filled the kitchen and he was wearing a pink ruffled apron. It was funny.

And then slowly the seed of grooming started. He talked, a lot. And he knew how to get your attencion. One by one, Lawrence or Larry, brainwashed those kids into believing that they went through sexual abuse when the were young but they supressed it. How one of the girls was schizophrenic. And, he, was the only one that could help. 3 of the roomates left when it was obvious that Talia's dad wasn't leaving, and was being weird. The first red flag happened with Larry and Isabela, Talia's best friend. They would spend hours, door locked, in Isabela's room. Years later Isabela, a girl the same age as Larry's daughter, her best friend, became one of Larry's wives.

Physical torture started happening, especially when Larry would ask a question and the kids wouldn't say the answer that he wanted. If he asked if the sky was red they needed to answer yes. Then, sexual abuse. According to Larry one of the ways the girls would fix their trauma was to put on the tightest and tiniest mini skirt, go to a store, with no underwear on and record themselves bending over. Then, they need to go find a random man and record the sexual act. For the boys, the were acused of breaking Larry's things, expensive ones and they needed to pay back.

One night, Dan is in the living room and Isabela, after being locked in her bedroom with Larry and Talia, is walking towards him and the ended having intercourse. Dan tells us that he thought it was weird because it looked like someone made her do it. In the next days Larry would enter when Dan and Isabela where in the room, turn on in explicit videos and make them watch. Another one of Larry's ways to help the kids with their trauma was sleep deprivition, yes, the torture method. The kids would stay awake days on end and taking way more Adderal (the pills prescribed to people with ADHD) every day. They were totally out of their mind.

Years pass, now Larry lives with Isabela, Claudia and Felicia (another college aged girl that Dan found). Claudia is an escort, making in the spawn of 2 years 2.5 million dollars. Larry keeps it all, making her have 3 to 7 clients per day seven days a week. Felicia, now one of Larry's wives is mentally and physically abused being put in diapers and sucking pacis every time she was being "bad". She totally regressed to a child like mentality, a young woman with a degree and medical license, reduced to the "crazy neighbour" that talks to herself.

Another thing, because of all the sleep deprivation and making take way more Aderall that you should take those kids belived in everything that Larry told them. Felicia belived that their parents were drug traficers, Claudia belived that she tried to poison Larry. They were long gone.

The light at the end of the tunnel

Remeber the email I talked about in the beginning? That email, sended to all of Claudia's contacts, probably sended so that she would lose all credibility. Was the beginning of Larry's downfall. The other roomates that left knew right away that Larry was involved and started planning how to get her out. They decided that the safesr way is talking with the department of sexual trafficking. When, the 3 roomates end their testemony the detectives are trying not to laugh. They don't belive them.

Next step, media attention. One of their old clasmates was now a journalist and they tell him everything. When the article cames out one of the client's of Claudia, Stuart, the nicest one acording to her calls her. He booked her a hotel room. She escaped.

2020

2020 is the year that Larry is arrested. Felicia and Isabela defend him. Luckly, weeks away of Larry and therapy open Felicia's eyes. She now knows that she was being manipulated. Felicia is still by his side.

Larry was sentenced to 60 years of prison. Isabela, is also serving years in prison.

The end

If you want to see more details about this case watch Stephanie Soo two-part series about it. What are your opinions about it? Should Isabela also be considered guilty? And what about Talia, Larry's daughter?

Part 1

Part 2

See you,

JP