Ok so I know I’m behind the 8 ball, but just watched Stole Youth (the Sarah Lawrence doc) and have so many questions!
And most of the threads are locked now so it’s not like I can go back to them.
First of all, what about that daughter? Where is she at now? She got all her friends to worship her dad and then just slipped out? He didn’t try all those same tactics on her?
What was in it for these kids? I consider myself an amateur expert on cults and I can’t figure out what this guy had going for him? It wasn’t religion based, it wasn’t even self evolution based. He literally just convinced everybody they owed him a bunch of money and they all went along with it.
No one has, to this day, actually completed a psych- eval of this guy? Because he was “too cunning.?” Is that a thing? Couldn’t the same be sad for a bunch of serial killers?
I wanna read the one kid’s book, but honestly, when it was getting into the abuse, I had to look away. It was too painful. And I’m afraid his book will detail more of that.
I can’t quite figure out what we are looking at in this documentary, but it seems very different than all of the other cult things we’ve been looking at all along. And I can’t quite articulate how.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.