Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence

STOLEN YOUTH: INSIDE THE CULT AT SARAH LAWRENCE is a three-part docuseries about the way a convicted felon controlled a group of college students' lives, and how they survived the experience. In fall 2010, after serving a six-month sentence for violating a child-custody order, Larry Ray moved in with his daughter and her seven roommates to Slonim Woods 9, an isolated dorm on the far side of the grounds of Sarah Lawrence College. Ray, who claimed to be a former Marine and high-ranking government operative, began acting as a mentor and spiritual advisor to the group, and built a cult-like following that included students like Daniel Levin, Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, and Santos Rosario. Within a year others, like Rosario's sisters, Columbia student Yalitza, and Felicia, a forensic psychiatry resident living in California, joined them. For years they were convinced that they had to sever their relationships with their families, which made it easier for their leader to extort them for money while physically, mentally, and sexually abusing them. It wasn't until April 2019, after an online magazine article detailing what happened to these Sarah Lawrence students was published, that federal authorities began investigating his activities. Ray was ultimately convicted of a range of crimes, including sex trafficking, extortion, and conspiracy. But his victims are still coping with the consequences of what they endured.