With all that's been said about the allegations against Woody Allen, this ruling by the judge against Allen is the place to start.
It is very detailed and extensive and settles many factual "questions" that the media haven't covered well.
In short, Allen was already in therapy for acting inappropriately towards Dylan. The therapist who was apparently more on Allen's side found him fairly obsessed with her (I believe before the relationship with Soon-Yi even came out) although she says she didn't see it as "sexual." Obviously she'd be motivated not to see that, given who he was and that at that time there weren't accusations of actual abuse against him.
Links:
https://www.scribd.com/document/205403621/Allen-v-Farrow-Custody-Ruling-June-7-1993
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-shea/heres-the-1993-woody-alle_b_4746866.html
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Are_we_sure ago
The custody trial did not litigate the fact of whether or not he abused Dylan. It simply wasn't the issue before the court. And since that was the case it made the custody issue a lot easier.
This is not actually the case (This is because you need find the actual testimony that occurred to get the full flavor of this case.) This therapist was a psychologist who specialized in children and her primary patient was Satchel (now Ronan) Farrow, but she was familiar with family dynamic
Here's the full quote of what she said.
https://www.thenation.com/article/woody-and-mia-modern-family-timeline/ This link is a very good timeline of the facts in this case.
There's no basis to say this therapist was on Allen's side as opposed to be on the side of the truth. She knew Dylan quite well and had examined her previously. What would she not be on Dylan's side?
The Farrow side basically dismissed any professional testimony that was against their case as biased towards Woody Allen. They never did explain why the doctors would not be biased towards the child in a case of actual abuse or biased towards the truth. They only became biased after they gave their opinion. Dr Coates was first doctor called Mia Farrow called about this accusation.
I have no idea how you could speak to the doctor's motivations, let alone her obvious motivations. There's no reason to expect her to be biased. And you are wrong, as to when she made these comments. This was testimony under oath at the custody trial. This was months of after the original accusation of abuse that Dr. Coates was the first medical professional to hear about.
There is still to this day, only a single accusation. And none of the doctors or psychologists involved in this accusation would say that any abuse occurred which is why both NY and CT concluded no abuse occurred.
Psalm100 ago
From the judge's ruling in the case:
And interestingly, Dr. Leventhal himself never met with Dylan. I believe the Connecticut Magazine article goes into how the Yale-New Haven study was flawed.
But despite all this, including the judge's serious concerns about the study, Woody Allen had no problem touting it as vindicating him, the same way he and his defenders have no trouble claiming he passed a polygraph, without mentioning that he refused to take one from the police and instead "passed" the one that he took privately and paid for.
And this (and there's still much more to read in that opinion):
I knew a lot about this case and Woody Allen, but have learned still more recently, and all I've learned demonstrates to me that he's a liar without a conscience and concern for others. The judge wrote at length about how he's self-absorbed and seems to lack any true consideration for the well-being of other people, and gave many examples of how that's so. And about 25 years later, those same sorts of things were evident in this interview he gave:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woody-allen-is-creepy-af-about-soon-yi-in-the-hollywood-reporter_us_572a39e4e4b016f378946e02
Oh, and the judge's opinion addresses the major points of the pro-Allen testimony given by Dr. Coates which the old NY Times article is about.
carmencita ago
Oh Thank you so much for your Rebuttal. Awe Inspiring.
Psalm100 ago
You're welcome and thank you. I've had to be busy with other things lately but that Netflix child pornography brought me back here today. And what's more, the liberal MSM have not been covering it, up until this morning at least. Only outlets like Fox, Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Western Journalism, etc.
carmencita ago
We have to help each other out. The shills are forever contesting. Thanks A Bunch Again!
Psalm100 ago
Yes, shills are forever contesting, and forever misrepresenting. You're welcome!
carmencita ago
We are family!