Totally crazy story: a "cult" at Sarah Lawrence College

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You are held more liable for what goes on in your home than are colleges and universities for what happens on their campuses.

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Anonymous wrote:Are all of these White people? Just very curious.

there was a family (3 kids) involved who are from the dominican republic. Otherwise I think white

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, do not expect ANY supervision from colleges regarding social or even criminal behavior. The US Supreme Court discouraged "in loco parentis" in the 1970s. Now colleges are advised not to set any precedents by setting or enforcing rules on conduct. It's gotten much worse since 2000.
Your college kid is on their own - totally.

Maybe because they aren't 'kids'. If you're in college and staying in college housing you're an adult/18. Since they were sophomores these women had to be 19 or 20. Smart enough for at least ONE of the 8 housemates to note this wasn't right.

And where was this felon's parole officer in all of this?

I still think the school had some responsibility here. Even if they all were technically adults, if I am a tenant in a building and some unauthorized person has moved in, I can complain and I think my landlord has a duty to evict that person. Is it not a violation of the rules of the dorm? Isn't there some rule that tenants must be students? I know some students who dropped out/left school and the schools were quick to kick them out the dorms on the grounds that they were no longer students.

This. I don't get why some posters are saying that these are all adults and there was nothing the school could have done. People are paying money for room and board. With that payment comes some expectations of the building being appropriately managed. I tend to think people tend to be over-protective about their college students, but I honestly would have serious qualms about my kid attending that school at this point. There's a lot that is beyond the control of a school, but this was, and they utterly failed due diligence. Shame on them.

+1 to both the above PPs.

I posted before about how we visited Sarah Lawrence last fall. I noticed there are some "dorms" that seem to be suburban houses that maybe were part of the residential neighborhood surrounding the college, and which now are college property. I can picture how these houses, on the edge of campus, might have relatively few students in them and might be easy to squat in without anyone from the college noticing other than the students actually living in that one house. Really wondering if the dorm in question is one of these small house dorms (any SLC alums know?) and wondering why the college so blatantly ignored the complaint(s) by the one girl's parents. The article claims the college just said that said parents are allowed to visit. I'd bet no one from the administrative or security staff ever visited the dorm to check the claim this man was living there.

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So messed up. No way would it ever be o.k. for a roommates father to stay even a single night- that's pure creep material. The school shouldn't have allowed it and someone should have intervened. So sad for all those students and their families. I want to think I would have gone the the school, packed up my kid and gotten them out of there- no funding for SL schooling.

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Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

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Anonymous wrote:So messed up. No way would it ever be o.k. for a roommates father to stay even a single night- that's pure creep material. The school shouldn't have allowed it and someone should have intervened. So sad for all those students and their families. I want to think I would have gone the the school, packed up my kid and gotten them out of there- no funding for SL schooling.

Call me a helicopter parent, but same. The parents that complained lived in NYC. If I had been that close, I would have been dropping by frequently at least. And I think my husband would have had a word (perhaps many) with Larry. But no way would my 19 or 20 year old be staying in that living situation. The guy was a convicted felon!

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Anonymous wrote:Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

Yes, the SLC students involved seemed unstable and vulnerable, or easy targets. Shocking the school did nothing to confirm or deny Larry was living in student housing. I can't believe none of the parents showed up on campus, which is what I would have done. Then I would have called the police, if I found this guy living in my kid's dorm room.

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Anonymous wrote:Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

Yes, the SLC students involved seemed unstable and vulnerable, or easy targets. Shocking the school did nothing to confirm or deny Larry was living in student housing. I can't believe none of the parents showed up on campus, which is what I would have done. Then I would have called the police, if I found this guy living in my kid's dorm room.

Speaking of the police, I find it surprising that they said they also couldn't do anything about the $ that the one kid (Santos?) parents said they gave to Larry b/c their son was in fear for his safety - isn't that extortion? Don't we go after mobsters for that sort of thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

Yes, the SLC students involved seemed unstable and vulnerable, or easy targets. Shocking the school did nothing to confirm or deny Larry was living in student housing. I can't believe none of the parents showed up on campus, which is what I would have done. Then I would have called the police, if I found this guy living in my kid's dorm room.

Those kids weren’t minors.
You could maybe take it up with the landlord. Try and see if Larry has a parole officer. I would bet the daughter laid plenty of groundwork in the months leading up to his arrival. These were “woke” Sarah Lawrence students, and he was a victim of the system. I can easily envision this playing out.

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Anonymous wrote:Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

Yes, the article mentioned that the kids were all fairly unstable or vulnerable prior to meeting Larry. A quote from the article says that "Larry would sometimes tell the kids they had come together in part because of a shared obsession with taking their own lives." No sure if this is actually true or if it was something he was telling them, but at least one of them had tried to commit suicide in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Such a strange story. Do you think that this particular group of kids was slightly unstable before Larry even came into the picture (obviously Talia was, given her upbringing)? He realized they were kind of a bunch of unstable or mentally ill kids to begin with and he latched on. He’s clearly mentally ill himself.

When I think back on myself at that age and in college, I really don’t think I would have called for this shit. I would have recognized immediately that this older man is off, based simply on two facts: 1) he was just released from jail and 2) he had nowhere else to go or to be other than with a group of college co-eds. Those two facts alone would have alerted me and I would have backed myself out of that situation so fast.

Yes, the SLC students involved seemed unstable and vulnerable, or easy targets. Shocking the school did nothing to confirm or deny Larry was living in student housing. I can't believe none of the parents showed up on campus, which is what I would have done. Then I would have called the police, if I found this guy living in my kid's dorm room.

Those kids weren’t minors.
You could maybe take it up with the landlord. Try and see if Larry has a parole officer. I would bet the daughter laid plenty of groundwork in the months leading up to his arrival. These were “woke” Sarah Lawrence students, and he was a victim of the system. I can easily envision this playing out.

It was a dorm, so essentially the school was the landlord. They did nothing even after at least one set of parents complained.

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Anonymous wrote:The one chick, Claudia, has a pretty nutso website - looks like it is still active:

https://claudiadrury.com/

Listen to her recording with her mom. OMG.

https://claudiadrury.com/talking-with-my-mom

That’s crazy! And she chews with her mouth open.

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Anonymous wrote:The one chick, Claudia, has a pretty nutso website - looks like it is still active:

https://claudiadrury.com/

Listen to her recording with her mom. OMG.

https://claudiadrury.com/talking-with-my-mom

That’s crazy! And she chews with her mouth open.

The article seems to suggest that LR made this website.

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It was on campus housing!
Accused Sarah Lawrence sex cult leader lived in campus housing with daughter’s teen roommates when he was 50; told students they wanted to kill themselves: Report

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The one chick, Claudia, has a pretty nutso website - looks like it is still active:

https://claudiadrury.com/

Listen to her recording with her mom. OMG.

https://claudiadrury.com/talking-with-my-mom

That girl is not sane. The poor mother.

"I'm not delusional. They ruled out delusional." Oy vey!

this isn't her website - this is the cult leader trying to defame her. He likely has these kind of materials on all the kids. Cruel