Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult astatine Sarah Lawrence is simply a harrowing dive into Larry Ray’s twisted enactment cult that originated astatine Sarah Lawrence College. Over the people of a decade, Larry’s power implicit his victims destroyed families and futures.
While her sanction is brought up respective times implicit the people of the 3-part docuseries, Larry’s daughter, Talia Ray, does not look successful idiosyncratic astatine all. She doesn’t springiness an interrogation astir her begetter and the accusations against him. So, wherever is Talia Ray now? Here’s what we know.
Who Is Talia Ray?
Talia is cult person Larry Ray’s daughter. In 2010, Talia fto her begetter travel enactment with her astatine her Sarah Lawrence College dorm aft helium was released from prison. Talia lived successful a dorm with respective different Sarah Lawrence students. During Larry’s enactment astatine the dorm, helium began having aggravated “therapy” sessions with Talia’s roommates. These sessions evolved into a cult that Larry had afloat power over.
Talia’s household concern was ever complicated. Talia’s mom, Teresa, filed for divorcement successful 2004. Months later, erstwhile Teresa called the constabulary and claimed Larry had deed her, Larry and Talia accused Teresa of kid abuse, according to the New York Magazine article that archetypal reported Larry’s crimes. After that, Talia besides accused different household members of abuse. Investigators looked into the allegations against Teresa and recovered them not credible.
The probe concluded that Larry had manipulated Talia into making the maltreatment allegations that “fit nary discernible signifier ever reported to this examiner, who has been evaluating families for 20 years.” There was nary grounds that Talia nor her younger sister, Ava, had been physically oregon sexually abused.
Larry was ordered by the tribunal to crook implicit Talia and Ava to his ex-wife, but helium refused. He spent 6 months successful jailhouse arsenic a result. Talia did not spell to unrecorded with her mother. She decided to unrecorded successful younker shelters. “She was his soldier,” a root adjacent to the household told New York Magazine. “Talia is simply a truly loving person, and she is the biggest unfortunate of all.”
Larry created a hostile and paranoia-filled situation wrong his cult that isolated his victims from their friends and family. He threatened his victims successful bid to person wealth from them and exploited them successful intersexual scenarios. He besides pressured them into mendacious confessions aft brutal interrogations wherever helium deprived them of nutrient and sleep. His obsession with erstwhile person and ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik led to shocking accusations. Larry falsely accused respective of his victims of poisoning him and others successful the cult.
A puerility person of Talia told New York Magazine that Talia had told them that “their location had poison successful the walls oregon successful the attic” arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2nd grade. In the archetypal 2019 exposé, Larry claimed that Talia inactive judge she was a unfortunate of poisoning. “Talia was talking to maine conscionable a mates days agone astir however she finds it sometimes hard that she’s not capable to bash definite things successful the regular clip it would take,” Larry claimed. By that point, Talia was nary longer surviving with her father. She had moved successful with his stepfather successful North Carolina, but they inactive talked astir daily.
Where Is Talia Ray Today?
The Hulu docuseries said that national prosecutors “referred to Talia Ray arsenic her father’s co-conspirator, but nary charges person been brought against her.” Larry was recovered blameworthy connected each 15 counts — including racketeering conspiracy, wealth laundering, enactment trafficking, forced labor, and taxation evasion — successful April 2022. Nearly a twelvemonth aboriginal successful January 2023, helium was sentenced to 60 years successful national situation without the anticipation of parole.
Stolen Youth director Zach Heinzerling revealed to Variety that Talia “declined to participate” successful the docuseries. “It’s not truly overmuch much to that close now. I ideate she’s astir apt going done a lot. I can’t talk for her, but I can’t ideate having Larry arsenic your begetter presents its ain challenges. I anticipation that she has enactment done each this arsenic well,” helium added.
Since her father’s arrest, Talia has stayed retired of the nationalist eye. A Facebook account that is supposedly Talia’s hasn’t had a nationalist station since August 2020. According to the account, Talia was moving arsenic a paralegal astatine the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is located successful Durham, North Carolina.
In 2019, Talia and her step-grandfather, Gordon Ray, were pictured astatine the Durham Performing Arts Center, according to the New York Post. She besides antecedently worked astatine The Country Bookshop successful Southern Pines, North Carolina. At 1 point, Larry had moved respective of his cult members down to a location successful Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Daniel Barban Levin, 1 of Larry’s victims, admitted that helium would beryllium unfastened to having a speech with Talia successful the future. “I had disconnected myself from everyone progressive with this for galore years due to the fact that I was acrophobic and didn’t cognize who was safe,” helium told Newsweek. “And then, aft the conviction, I [began] reconnecting with my friends, and I don’t cognize wherever Talia is at, and what her authorities of caput is.”
He added, “I deliberation that if she reached retired to maine I would beryllium funny to person that conversation. But it’s truly hard for maine to ideate what her acquisition is, and I consciousness a batch of compassion for idiosyncratic who has lived with Larry Ray since she was a baby, I can’t ideate that.”
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