#424: Stolen Youth - Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence | Part 1
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🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In 2010, on the small woodsy campus of Sarah Lawrence College located in Yonkers, New York, 50 year old Lawrence Ray came to “crash” with his daughter Talia in her on-campus dorm town-house that she shared with several other students, ostensibly until he found a place to live after his recent release from prison. That fateful “visit” turned into a twisted decade long odyssey of abuse and coercive control that would nearly ruin the lives of several young people including Isabella Pollok, Claudia Drury, Dan Levin, Santos, Yalitza, and Felicia Rosario. Using the framework of Hulu’s extraordinary docs-series “Stolen Youth” we examine who these victims were, how they were lured into Larry’s web and how he was able to torture and traumatize them for so long. It is a cautionary tale that everyone needs to learn from. This is not about a “Sarah Lawrence sex cult", (in fact Laura and Jim debate whether this is a cult at all)...this is about unmasking a master manipulator capable of fooling everyone he came into contact with…including the FBI.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download |
| 0:06.2 | the app today. |
| 0:07.6 | Lawrence Ray moved in with his daughter back in 2010 after a jail stint. He effectively |
| 0:14.0 | told her and she was a sophomore here at the time, but he just needed a place to crash |
| 0:18.6 | for a while. That is when the alleged abuse began. |
| 0:23.4 | The Conduct of the Ledge Shears outrageous. It makes you angry. If you're not angry, |
| 0:27.6 | you don't have a soul. |
| 0:28.8 | The years of allegations about unspeakable abuse against young people, he met as college |
| 0:33.4 | students. |
| 0:34.4 | 60-year-old Lawrence Ray was arrested at this New Jersey home on Tuesday. |
| 0:39.1 | One of his daughters, roommates and one of the female victims in the indictment were in |
| 0:43.8 | the residence at the time. |
| 0:45.3 | According to the indictment, Ray held so-called therapy sessions in his daughter's dorm, |
| 0:50.4 | alienating several of the victims from their parents after earning their trust. The document |
| 0:55.6 | says he controlled them by using verbal and physical abuse, which escalated after he |
| 1:01.0 | and some of the victims later moved to New York City. |
| 1:05.0 | The indictment also charges Ray with depriving his victims of food and sleep and taking |
| 1:10.3 | explicit pictures of some of them. |
| 1:12.9 | Prosecutors say he accused them of lying and stealing, and in response they say he asked |
| 1:18.3 | for money, eventually extorting nearly a million dollars. |
| 1:25.1 | Hey, everyone and welcome to Real Crime Profile. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, founder of Paladin |
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