'Lieutenant' of Sarah Lawrence sex cultist gets nearly 5 years in prison

One of the chief enablers of convicted sex criminal Larry Ray will spend nearly five years behind bars, a district court ruled on Thursday. 

Judge Lewis Linman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York acknowledged on Thursday that Isabella Pollok had been young when she first met Ray and that he could be "extraordinarily manipulative," as Linman put it. 

But "there were moments over the years when you could have walked away or at least shown some mercy" in helping facilitate his crimes, Linman argued. 

Pollok was a major helper to Ray during the years of abuse he inflicted on his victims, prosecutors argued. The young woman "ran the accounts and meted out discipline ... pushing group members to serve and fund Mr. Ray across a decade and several states," as the New York Times reported. 

Ray himself was sentenced earlier this year to 60 years behind bars for his own crimes, which included sex trafficking and forced labor.