Stolen Youth: Daniel Levin on Larry Ray’s Cult

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. If you haven’t heard of the Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult, it is perhaps time to get out from under that rock you’re living under. After being released from prison, Ray moved into his daughter’s student residence just 30 minutes north of Manhattan and began terrorizing her friends through physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. This lasted a shocking ten years before Ray was finally arrested and held accountable for his wrongdoings.

Our guest today, Daniel Levin, was one of Ray’s victims, and has survived to tell the tale on Hulu’s recent “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” docuseries. Today, we’re breaking down exactly what happened, as well as how Levin is healing. Don’t forget to tune in next week, when we’ll be speaking with the director of “Stolen Youth,” Zachary Heinzerling.

You can learn more about Daniel Levin and his writing, which includes his memoir about Larry Ray, Slonim Woods 9, here.

Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts,
0:03.6	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:07.8	That's true.
0:08.5	Any of the fire content provided by our guest bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion,
0:13.6	and are not intended to malign any religion group, club, organization, business individual,
0:18.2	anyone, or anything.
0:19.3	Unless you're abusing people, then I have a problem aligning you.
0:22.6	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists, or wizards.
0:25.8	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly, informative podcast that helps you understand culty shit.
0:40.8	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:43.2	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippie, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit culty.
0:49.6	aka aLBC.
0:51.2	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.6	We've been there and back again.
0:56.3	A little about us.
0:57.3	True story.
0:58.2	We met and fell in love in a cult.
1:00.8	And then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:03.2	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow.
1:06.8	Now in its second season.
1:08.4	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART.
1:11.5	The true story of how I escaped next year, the cult that bound my life.
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