Woody Allen's daughter details how she was sexually abused by him in the NYT

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#106
Something's off w/ him . . .

Allen doesn't seem to have a relationship with his children with Mia either:

Allen's biological son with Farrow, Ronan Farrow (birth name Satchel) -- who is now a 23-year-old journalist/government official --said of the relationship according to Life magazine, "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression."

"I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent," he added, "I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children."
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#107
Jayne1 said:
I wasn't bringing up her mother's past to discredit the situation as much as I was bringing up the possibility that Mia, who was very angry, might have used her daughter to get back at Woody… and if she did help create false memories, as the authorities thought possible, she ruined her daughter's life with her own need for revenge. If she did that. No one knows, of course.
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About the evaluation (aka the Yale report) from "the authorities" regarding the authenticity of Dylan Farrow's account...

An examination of the Yale report and court documents shows:
• The Yale team used psychologists on Allen’s payroll to make mental health conclusions. “That seems like a blatant conflict of interest; they should have excluded themselves,” Schetky says.
• Custody recommendations were made even though the team never saw Allen and any of the children together. “I’d sure want that information,” Schetky says.
• The team refused to interview witnesses who could have corroborated the molestation claims.
• The team destroyed its notes. “I don’t know why they would,” Schetky says. “They shouldn’t have anything to hide, unless they’re in disagreement.”
• Leventhal, the only medical doctor on the team, did not interview Dylan. “How can you write about someone you’ve never seen?” Schetky asks.
• The night before Leventhal gave a statement to Farrow’s attorney, he discussed the scenario with Abramowitz, the head of Allen’s legal team, for about 30 minutes.
• The team interviewed Dylan nine times. For three consecutive weeks, she said violated her sexually. In several of the other sessions, she mentioned a similar type of abuse. When Dylan did not repeat the precise allegation in some of the sessions, the team reported this as an inconsistency.
The nine interviews were “excessive,” Schetky says. “The danger is the child feels like she’s not believed if she’s asked the same question over and over.”
Leventhal himself later admitted, in sworn testimony in the custody case, that he made several mistakes during the course of the investigation. One of those was his false characterization of Dylan’s active imagination as a thought disorder.
In the Yale report, Leventhal cited what he called “loose associations” by the child. He said she talked about looking in a trunk and seeing “dead heads.” When advised that Mia Farrow had a trunk in her attic in which she kept wigs from her movies on wig blocks, Leventhal acknowledged this was not evidence of a fantasy problem or a thought disorder.
The pediatrician also attempted to categorize Dylan’s banter as “magical thinking,” citing her vivid description of a sunset. However, after being advised that Mia Farrow described the dark sky upon leaving New Haven in the evening as “the magic hour,” Leventhal said he was “less concerned” about the incident as an example of “loose thinking.”
“This guy Leventhal never left his office, never talked to the child, but he gave a wonderful account and said, ‘I exonerate you, Woody,’” D’Amico says. “Boy, I wouldn’t want to carry that flag around—‘Leventhal says I’m OK.’”
A Yale spokeswoman said that the hospital stands by the report and Leventhal’s national reputation.
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#108
Per the October 2013 Vanity Fair article, the state prosecutor who decided not to pursue the case did so based on Dylan Farrow's "freezing up" when questioned about Allen. Not based on what he believed to be a fatally biased psychological evaluation.

He (the prosecutor) has stated in the press that he believed Dylan to be a "victim", not a "complainant". The problem was not that he thought she was inconsistent: it was that he could tell she was too traumatised to be a useful witness; he didn't want to put her through cross-examination.
 
#112
Is what a misprint? I think there's something off. Any man who marries someone that's a daughter in his family unit is "off". EVen IF he didn't assault his DD.
 
#113
I was wondering what this sentence meant:

"Allen doesn't seem to have a relationship with his children with Mia either."

You highlighted the red and I wondered if that sentence made sense… not your sentence.

Of course he doesn't have a relationship with those children. Mia made sure of that. Rightly or wrongly.
 
#115
Ive know several victims of sexual
abuse and it was sad to see how few people actually believed them and how so many tried to make excuses....a child of that age can certainly lie, but making up allegations of this magnitude is not likely at all.... if this is all true, which in my opinion it seems like it is, I hope he burns in hell for all eternity!
 
#116
nycmom said:
I absolutely believe Dylan believes it but that doesn't necessarily make it the truth.

And for the record I also believe he is beyond creepy for getting involved with Soon-Yi and have never felt the same way about him, or his movies, since that news broke.
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I agree.....I think the involvement with Soon-Yi which I think started when she was 17 is disgusting.
I don't think Dylan is lying but isn't this type of molestation usually recurring rather than a one-time thing?
I have to think it's possible that Dylan is confused.
He's creepy but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on the child molestation
 
#117
sdkitty said:
I agree.....I think the involvement with Soon-Yi which I think started when she was 17 is disgusting.
I don't think Dylan is lying but isn't this type of molestation usually recurring rather than a one-time thing?
I have to think it's possible that Dylan is confused.
He's creepy but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on the child molestation
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When she was interviewed, Dylan detailed a long pattern of inappropriate behaviour and "milder" abuse leading up to the attic incident.

Besides that, it's not true that molestation is always habitual. It takes many forms.

To go even further, when a child does actually do the best thing she could do by disclosing after the first instance of abuse, to say she is probably "confused" because it only happened once, is a dangerous route to take. We should be ready to believe a child when they say someone abused them, even if they say it only happened once.

Speaking about Dylan in particular, what she disclosed at the time was very specific. It would be incredibly rare for a seven year old to have the detailed sexual and anatomical knowledge needed to disclose what she did unless it happened, or someone coached her very carefully to lie. Being "confused" really isn't a viable explanation.

I'm not jumping on you, just putting that out there. Hey, maybe Dylan Farrow is a liar or a fantasist -- I don't know for sure... I just get super uncomfortable reading the usual excuses, vacillations and minimizations that are trotted out when a respected figure is accused of child sexual abuse.
 
#118
usmcwifey said:
Ive know several victims of sexual
abuse and it was sad to see how few people actually believed them and how so many tried to make excuses....a child of that age can certainly lie, but making up allegations of this magnitude is not likely at all.... if this is all true, which in my opinion it seems like it is, I hope he burns in hell for all eternity!
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There are several reasons but this is mainly why I believe her. I have never heard of one pedophile who didn't use either the threat of violence or the fact that no one would understand/believe you if you told.
 
#119
The Daily Beast article is such a load of BS. I dont see what Mia Farrow's sexual conquests has to do with Dylan Farrow telling her side of her story. I find the Woody apologists in the media absolutely sickening, I'm sorry I absolutely cannot dissociate. I dont care if he's supposedly talented and a great filmmaker, he should not be getting celebrated and awarded. He should be reviled. See also, Roman Polanski.

It breaks my heart that victims of sexual abuse (in these celebrity cases) are so often dragged through the mud and their motives called into question. I dont discount that there are lots of things we may not be privvy to, but the evidence is overwhelming. And also I dont care that he didnt have (by his accounts) a strong father/daughter relationship with Soon Yi. She was his spouse's adopted daughter! COME THE **** ON. That is not normal, that is sick depraved behaviour to go and marry the little kid that your wife adopted.
 
#120
vimrod said:
The Daily Beast article is such a load of BS. I dont see what Mia Farrow's sexual conquests has to do with Dylan Farrow telling her side of her story. I find the Woody apologists in the media absolutely sickening, I'm sorry I absolutely cannot dissociate. I dont care if he's supposedly talented and a great filmmaker, he should not be getting celebrated and awarded. He should be reviled. See also, Roman Polanski.

It breaks my heart that victims of sexual abuse (in these celebrity cases) are so often dragged through the mud and their motives called into question. I dont discount that there are lots of things we may not be privvy to, but the evidence is overwhelming. And also I dont care that he didnt have (by his accounts) a strong father/daughter relationship with Soon Yi. She was his spouse's adopted daughter! COME THE **** ON. That is not normal, that is sick depraved behaviour to go and marry the little kid that your wife adopted.
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This!!!
 
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