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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are so many blaming the parents? It is hard to imagine this kind of nightmare and it was unprecedented at the time. Who would be concerned that their child’s classmates might have a father just out of jail leeching off his daughter and enslaving her peers on campus ? I worry a lot as a parent but this scenario would never have crossed my mind.

[b]Why does the college itself receive so little Criticism for their lax oversight ?[/b]

Glad this creep is in jail and I hope all colleges take better steps to prevent such abuse on campus again.

Just terrible for these young people to have their youth degraded and stolen. I hope they can make positive futures for themselves and heal from these horrors …[/quote]

NP on this thread but familiar with this whole nightmare story and the original thread (the OP of that thread posted just above). I agree with the bold. We visited SL with our DD (this was a few years ago, so well after the events took place; DD did not end up wanting to apply). Seeing the physical layout of that campus, and the way some students lived as small groups in single family houses rather than dorms or townhouses with close neighbors next door, I can picture how this went down there. From what I recall, Ray's daughter and the kids he manipulated lived in one of these SFHs at the edge of campus that function as small house dorms, and that would make it FAR easier for someone to simply move in unnoticed unless someone in that house reported his presence to the college. I knew this tale at the time we visited and I definitely found myself thinking, yes, I can see how it would not be at all obvious to the college, campus security or other students if someone simply moved into one of these houses long-term. If I'm wrong about their living situation and the SFH group house, I apologize, but I'm pretty sure that was the type of housing involved. And it was clearly a somewhat isolating form of housing.

I also think the college at the time took a very hands-off, "they're adults and none of them is complaining to us" attitude, plus: The guy was the father of a student and I wonder if that made the college shrug it off even more readily. If only someone at the college, even another student, had had the instinct to check on him and discovered his record, all this might not have gone down the way it did there, sadly. He would have found other vulnerable people to manipulate, though. He was always going to do this somewhere, somehow; he just found the perfect set of victims all under one roof, in a place where he had a perfect excuse for being around. [/quote]

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