“Then 41-year-old Woody said,"I'm open-minded about sex. I'm not above reproach; if anything, I'm below reproach. I mean, if I was caught in a love nest with fifteen 12-year-old girls tomorrow, people would think, yeah, I always knew that about him."
He added,** "Nothing I could come up with would surprise anyone ... I admit to it all."**”
"The Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sex Abuse Clinic’s finding that Dylan had not been sexually molested, cited repeatedly by Allen’s attorneys, was not accepted as reliable by Judge Wilk, or by the Connecticut state prosecutor who originally commissioned them. The state prosecutor, Frank Maco, engaged the Yale-New Haven team to determine whether Dylan would be able to perceive facts correctly and be able to repeat her story on the witness stand. The panel consisted of two social workers and a pediatrician, Dr. John Leventhal, who signed off on the report but who never saw Dylan or Mia Farrow. No psychologists or psychiatrists were on the panel. The social workers never testified; the hospital team only presented a sworn deposition by Dr. Leventhal, who did not examine Dylan.
All the notes from the report were destroyed. Her confidentiality was then violated, and Allen held a news conference on the steps of Yale University to announce the results of the case. The report concluded Dylan had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. (For example, she had told them there were “dead heads” in the attic and called sunset “the magic hour.” In fact, Mia kept wigs from her movies on styrofoam blocks in a trunk in the attic.) The doctor subsequently backed down from his contention.
The Connecticut state police, the state attorney, and Judge Wilk all had serious reservations about the report’s reliability."
None of that shows any shilling for Woody Allen. You're showing some people disagreed with their findings. Other did not.
It doesn't show that they changed their findings in any way because the accused was Woody Allen.
There's lots there that goes after their methods...."No psychologists or psychiatrists were on the panel."....but doesn't say they changed their methods to because of Woody Allen.
I presume the CT police referred the case to them because they had more expertise than the CT police. I would presume they had more expertise than a Family Court judge too.
This part sounds false
The state prosecutor, Frank Maco, engaged the Yale-New Haven team to determine whether Dylan would be able to perceive facts correctly and be able to repeat her story on the witness stand. .....
This part sounds like they are reaching for a way to discredit the conclusions.
Dr. John Leventhal, who signed off on the report but who never saw Dylan or Mia Farrow......the hospital team only presented a sworn deposition by Dr. Leventhal, who did not examine Dylan.
Are they speaking of a physical examination? Because I believe the Yale Team based their report on several interviews with Dylan, are they saying Dr. Leventhal wasn't part of those interviews?
Does it matter if Leventhal wasn't the one conducting the interview? it doesn't mean he wasn't aware of the interview or didn't say see the videos of the interview. For example, not every cop involved in a case needs to be in on all the interviews and the prosecutors are often not on the interviews, but they can still write up a report based on those interviews.
Wasn't this report made public at the time? Let me see if I can find it.
The part that sounded false to me seems to only include part of what was asked of the Yale Team. The report says
Two major questions posed in the referral were:
Is Dylan telling the truth and did we think she was sexually abused?
It mentions the interviews they carried out. Dylan Farrow was interviewed by "Ms Sawyer and Dr. Hamilton" in Sept, Oct and November of 1992. Mia Farrow was interviewed separately in those months as well.
In December Mia was interviewed by "Ms Sawyer, Dr Hamilton and Dr Leventhal" and the video of this interview was reviewed with Mia.
So Leventhal did interview Mia, but the bulk of the interviews and all the interviews with Dylan were from Sawyer and Hamilton. I wonder if anyone alleges they disagrees with Leventhal's sworn statement or with the report.
These pages do not show who signed the report, but it is written in a collective voice.
we interviewed.....we met with...It is our expert opinion.....our opinion was reinforced.......while we can conclude....we cannot be definitive.
So there's nothing that I see that says the opinion wasn't unanimous or that they behaved any differently than they normally would.
And a Mia Farrow Fan. She's great in Broadway Danny Rose and Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters and .....OMG, I just remember Rosemary's Baby was directed by Polanski.....wow that's weird....I was thinking it was Cassavetes, but he was just an actor in it.......anyway she's really good in that.
I like their work. They are both however fucked in the head.....that was part of the trial testimony of the child psychologist who worked with them, by the way. Remember all the Soon Yi stuff happened first. This was all out there and public. The allegation of this incident came up in the middle of these two breaking up. Four days before this allegation, the child psychologist testifed that Farrow was raging against Allen the Soon Yi thing calling him Satanic and Evil and then asked in all seriousness Farrow asked the doctor if she thought the Farrow should marry Allen. That's not a rational person. Allen is, of course, not a disinterested party, but he claims in the middle of all this she was asking about getting fitted for costumes for his next movie. He made that claim months before the custody trial and the pyschologist seems to back that type of thinking up.
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Factfinder2 ago
TMZ:
“Then 41-year-old Woody said,"I'm open-minded about sex. I'm not above reproach; if anything, I'm below reproach. I mean, if I was caught in a love nest with fifteen 12-year-old girls tomorrow, people would think, yeah, I always knew that about him."
He added,** "Nothing I could come up with would surprise anyone ... I admit to it all."**”
https://www.tmz.com/2014/02/05/woody-allen-12-year-old-sex-interview-pedophile/
Archive: http://archive.is/azzHN
Vanity Fair:
10 UNDENIABLE FACTS ABOUT THE WOODY ALLEN SEXUAL-ABUSE ALLEGATION
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts
Archive: http://archive.is/cMk4H
QuoteUnquoteArt ago
The way they shilled for Allen makes Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sex Abuse Clinic a suspect institution.
Factfinder2 ago
Agreed.
KnightsofHubris ago
Why do you claim they shilled for him?
And why would they? Weren't they working for cops in Connecticutt?
QuoteUnquoteArt ago
"The Yale-New Haven Hospital Child Sex Abuse Clinic’s finding that Dylan had not been sexually molested, cited repeatedly by Allen’s attorneys, was not accepted as reliable by Judge Wilk, or by the Connecticut state prosecutor who originally commissioned them. The state prosecutor, Frank Maco, engaged the Yale-New Haven team to determine whether Dylan would be able to perceive facts correctly and be able to repeat her story on the witness stand. The panel consisted of two social workers and a pediatrician, Dr. John Leventhal, who signed off on the report but who never saw Dylan or Mia Farrow. No psychologists or psychiatrists were on the panel. The social workers never testified; the hospital team only presented a sworn deposition by Dr. Leventhal, who did not examine Dylan.
All the notes from the report were destroyed. Her confidentiality was then violated, and Allen held a news conference on the steps of Yale University to announce the results of the case. The report concluded Dylan had trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. (For example, she had told them there were “dead heads” in the attic and called sunset “the magic hour.” In fact, Mia kept wigs from her movies on styrofoam blocks in a trunk in the attic.) The doctor subsequently backed down from his contention.
The Connecticut state police, the state attorney, and Judge Wilk all had serious reservations about the report’s reliability."
KnightsofHubris ago
None of that shows any shilling for Woody Allen. You're showing some people disagreed with their findings. Other did not.
It doesn't show that they changed their findings in any way because the accused was Woody Allen.
There's lots there that goes after their methods...."No psychologists or psychiatrists were on the panel."....but doesn't say they changed their methods to because of Woody Allen.
I presume the CT police referred the case to them because they had more expertise than the CT police. I would presume they had more expertise than a Family Court judge too.
This part sounds false
This part sounds like they are reaching for a way to discredit the conclusions.
Are they speaking of a physical examination? Because I believe the Yale Team based their report on several interviews with Dylan, are they saying Dr. Leventhal wasn't part of those interviews?
Does it matter if Leventhal wasn't the one conducting the interview? it doesn't mean he wasn't aware of the interview or didn't say see the videos of the interview. For example, not every cop involved in a case needs to be in on all the interviews and the prosecutors are often not on the interviews, but they can still write up a report based on those interviews.
Wasn't this report made public at the time? Let me see if I can find it.
KnightsofHubris ago
It seems the whole report was not made public. It seems only the intro and the summary pages were released.....it jumps to page 40.
https://radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/yale-new-haven-hospital-allen.pdf
The part that sounded false to me seems to only include part of what was asked of the Yale Team. The report says
It mentions the interviews they carried out. Dylan Farrow was interviewed by "Ms Sawyer and Dr. Hamilton" in Sept, Oct and November of 1992. Mia Farrow was interviewed separately in those months as well.
In December Mia was interviewed by "Ms Sawyer, Dr Hamilton and Dr Leventhal" and the video of this interview was reviewed with Mia.
So Leventhal did interview Mia, but the bulk of the interviews and all the interviews with Dylan were from Sawyer and Hamilton. I wonder if anyone alleges they disagrees with Leventhal's sworn statement or with the report.
These pages do not show who signed the report, but it is written in a collective voice.
So there's nothing that I see that says the opinion wasn't unanimous or that they behaved any differently than they normally would.
QuoteUnquoteArt ago
Are you a Woody Allen fan?
AndrewBlazeIt ago
Dude, he's getting paid. He's responded a SHITLOAD to like every single thread about Allen.
Who's an incestuous rapist pedo, btw.
@KnightsofHubris
KnightsofHubris ago
Yeah, Me and the Yale Sex Abuse Clinic.
We're just paid.
AndrewBlazeIt ago
I know, that's why I said it.
KnightsofHubris ago
Yes.
And a Mia Farrow Fan. She's great in Broadway Danny Rose and Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters and .....OMG, I just remember Rosemary's Baby was directed by Polanski.....wow that's weird....I was thinking it was Cassavetes, but he was just an actor in it.......anyway she's really good in that.
I like their work. They are both however fucked in the head.....that was part of the trial testimony of the child psychologist who worked with them, by the way. Remember all the Soon Yi stuff happened first. This was all out there and public. The allegation of this incident came up in the middle of these two breaking up. Four days before this allegation, the child psychologist testifed that Farrow was raging against Allen the Soon Yi thing calling him Satanic and Evil and then asked in all seriousness Farrow asked the doctor if she thought the Farrow should marry Allen. That's not a rational person. Allen is, of course, not a disinterested party, but he claims in the middle of all this she was asking about getting fitted for costumes for his next movie. He made that claim months before the custody trial and the pyschologist seems to back that type of thinking up.
AndrewBlazeIt ago
(((Leventhal)))