Stolen Youth

Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'In 2010, a group of students at Sarah Lawrence College were surprised when a co-ed\\u2019s father began sleeping on the couch in their dorm. One by one, Larry Ray became a confidant and mentor to the young men and women, eager for his worldly knowledge. \\n\\nAfter Ray and the students moved into a Manhattan apartment, his paternal guidance morphed into coercive control - complete with corporal punishment, sex trafficking, and group paranoia that evil forces were targeting them. For ten years, Ray exerted his influence over them, until authorities broke up what they labeled \\u201ca cult.\\u201d\\n\\nThe three-part Hulu documentary \\u201cStolen Youth\\u201d brings us inside the so-called Sarah Lawrence College cult, with exclusive interviews from the former students and homemade video from inside their psychological prison. It then jumps to the present day to chronicle the remaining cult members\\u2019 struggle with the consequences of their pasts.'