Sarah Lawrence Avoids Liability for Sex Trafficking of Students

Sarah Lawrence College isn’t liable to students who were sexually abused by a father that the school allowed to live on campus, a federal court said.

The students’ claims were untimely, and even if they weren’t, they failed on the merits, Judge Lewis J. Liman said Tuesday for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The students failed to sufficiently allege the college was involved in or benefited from the alleged sex trafficking, Liman said.

Sexual abuse at the college garnered widespread media coverage, including a Hulu documentary miniseries called Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at ...