Larry Ray, Legal, Podcast, Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement, Bad Vegan, Distress and Resilience, Event
"Lawrence V. Ray grunts and screams on the audio recording. He asks for his "sharpest razor," calls for a hammer and yells at a young man named Santos Rosario.
"I swear I'll put this through your skull," Mr. Ray shouts. "I want to take you out in a brutal way."
The recording, played to jurors in Mr. Ray's trial on charges of sex trafficking, extortion and racketeering conspiracy in Federal District Court in Manhattan, captured the rage he unleashed on young people whom he first befriended, then mesmerized and then accused of sabotaging him.
Mr. Ray, 62, who was arrested in 2020 after he was the subject of a New York magazine article, spent nearly a decade controlling and abusing a group of young people, prosecutors say. He met most of them, according to testimony, in 2010 after moving into his daughter's dormitory at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County, just north of New York City.
Mr. Ray has been accused of manipulating, threatening and assaulting those under his sway and isolating some from their parents. Prosecutors said he pressured the young people to make false confessions of undermining him and damaging his property, then extracted payments from his victims and their relatives.
After the recording was played in court earlier this month, Mr. Rosario testified that Mr. Ray had become infuriated when someone had listed him on the web as a mental-health provider. Mr. Rosario, conditioned by years of fake confessions, told Mr. Ray he had posted the information, but then could not comply with his demand to remove it.'He was hitting me with the hammer," Mr. Rosario testified, adding that the encounter lasted for "several hours."
The defense has maintained that Mr. Ray was absorbed into a fog of falsehoods created by students who mixed their own life stories with his, adding details and building upon one another's accounts to create "one fantastic conspiracy.'"
A Little Bit Culty: Unholy Spirits: Eric Skwarczynski on Darkness in the IFB
"There's a dark cloud hanging over the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, and our guest today wants you to know about it. Eric Skwarczynski is the host and creator of the Preacher Boys podcast, which is a platform for survivors' stories and the basis of an upcoming documentary film about a deeply disturbing pattern of sexual predation and abuse claims within the IFB. Eric joins us to talk about blowing the whistle on the IFB, what sucks about purity culture (hint: everything), and what it will take to create a sea change among current congregants, leaders, and pastors. He also gives us the scoop on his new podcast: Figuring it Out which currently features life advice from Shaq (!!!)"
" ... The founder of Manhattan clean-eating hot spot Pure Food and Wine was a tabloid fixture in 2016 after she defrauded investors, stiffed staffers, and went on the lam, under what she says was the bizarre spell of a man she met online and went on to marry. As a new docuseries looks at the scandal with fresh eyes, Melngailis speaks on what happened then and where she is now."" ... She is currently reading Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein. Such books help her understand what she believes she went through. "Like dissociation, and the fact I can't remember so much stuff. I feel close to former cult members because we understand one another." She recently recorded an interview for a forthcoming episode of the podcast A Little Bit Culty, hosted by Sarah Edmondson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames, survivors of NXIVM."
ICSA Annual Conference: The impact of group psychological abuse on distress: The role of social functioning and resilience (Panel Part 1/2)
Emma Antelo, Omar Saldaña, Oscar Wu-Salmeron, Alvaro Rodriguez-Carballeira
Friday, June 24th, 2022
3:00 PM-3:50 PM Part 1
4:00 PM-4:50 PM Part 2
During the last decades, different studies have shown that people who experience group psychological abuse may suffer clinical distress and psychosocial difficulties after leaving the group. However, previous studies conducted in other abusive contexts indicate that social functioning and resilience can mitigate these adverse psychological effects of interpersonal violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the role of these variables regarding how survivors of social groups that are high-demand, manipulative, or abusive towards their members cope with trauma. Taking into account this gap, the purpose of this study is to examine how social functioning and resilience may influence distress suffered by former members of abusive groups. An online questionnaire was administered to 794 English-speaking former members of different types of groups, 499 victims of group psychological abuse and 295 non-victims. Results showed that victims of group psychological abuse reported lower levels of social functioning and resilience than non-victims, and higher levels of psychosocial difficulties and psychopathological symptoms. Furthermore, results showed that participants who had experienced higher levels of group psychological abuse tend to have poorer social functioning, negatively affecting resilience. In turn, lower levels of social functioning and resilience may increase distress. In addition, women and survivors who were born or raised within the group reported lower social functioning, and in consequence, higher levels of distress. This study highlights the need to promote and enhance social adjustment and positive coping for fostering recovery from the abusive experience. Effective interventions will need to focus on a wide range of factors, including the abusive experience characteristics, the circumstances of the survivors such as sex or the age joining the group, and the promotion of social functioning and resilience.
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