Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult Survivors Relive Horrors in Hulu Docuseries 'Stolen Youth' - Watch Trailer

The infamous Sarah Lawrence College sex cult is now the focus of a Hulu docuseries, featuring never-before-seen footage of the abuse and psychological torture the students endured at the hands of their parents, Larry Ray.< /p>

"Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence" is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Zach Heinzerling. The three-part docuseries explores the survivors of Ray's sex cult that spanned more than a decade. Ray, a former CIA agent, was convicted of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy and other charges in 2019.

The official synopsis reads: With unprecedented access, "Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence" extracts gripping first-hand interviews with the victims of con artist Larry Ray and incorporates audio and personal video recordings to tell the story of his dark 10-year influence on a group of young people. The series follows the story of the origins of the cult in 2010 on the campus of Sarah Lawrence until its recent demise when the last members find their own way to survival.

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Survivors describe falling prey to the college "bubble" on campus, with Ray encouraging former high school outcasts to create their own communities under his watch. Ray's self-evident philosophy "Quest for Potential" became the cornerstone of a drug-induced lifestyle that Ray oversaw and benefited from financially. The trailer states that Ray was "building an army" out of the college students and making millions of dollars from the college girls working as escorts.

Director Heinzerling explained that survivor Daniel Levin approached him to make a documentary about what really happened with Ray. "He said, 'I want to do something that survivors can look at and see for themselves,'" Heinzerling said. “I went to a small liberal arts college. I had a similar group of artistic-minded friends. And so I thought, "That could be me."

Heinzerling continued, "You have a quote-unquote group of progressive-minded 'liberal' students who find themselves in an environment where they are told to hang out. And along comes this kind of heteronormative, masculine person and curator who makes very clear black and white decisions about the lives of these students and soothes all these anxieties. I think it's interesting to see this also in the context of a small liberal arts college, where you don't really associate a Trump-like personality with being attractive, yet he was attractive to these really bright young students."

Heinzerling described Ray's reign as a "psychological prison" for his targets.

"I think the goal is to understand how it happened and to empathize with the survivors and understand their story more thoroughly - and hopefully learn something about yourself and on society", he summarized. "You don't often see someone heal from that kind of abuse [onscreen]. It showed a level of strength and courage in someone to get rid of whatever shame and embarrassment they might have felt. following this and begin a healing process."

"Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence" is produced by Story Syndicate and premieres February 9 on Hulu.

Check out the trailer below.