Pretty powerful letter.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/20...=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/20...=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
I'm not buying it.
I don't know who's telling the truth, but the guy's subsequent behavior makes it a lot easier to believe her story, rather than his.
"A team of investigators from Yale-New Haven Hospital that was retained by the Connecticut State Police subsequently concluded Dylan had not been abused," according to an account in the Times, which covered the custody proceedings.
I'm not buying it.
The fact is Woody Allen is wealthy, powerful, and Jewish. Hollywood is predominately Jewish. Do you guys really think that they would let someone like Woody Allen take the fall for allegedly abusing his child?
"A team of investigators from Yale-New Haven Hospital that was retained by the Connecticut State Police subsequently concluded Dylan had not been abused," according to an account in the Times, which covered the custody proceedings.
Justice Wilk, however, questioned the manner in which the Yale-New Haven team carried out its investigation of the allegations, as well as conclusions by two psychotherapists who treated Dylan that she had not been abused. "I am less certain, however, than is the Yale-New Haven team, that the evidence proves conclusively that there was no sexual abuse," Justice Wilk wrote.
The justice said he believed the conclusions of the psychotherapists had been "colored by their loyalty to Mr. Allen." He added that the unwillingness of members of the Yale-New Haven team to testify at the trial, except through a deposition by the team leader, and the destruction of the team's notes had "compromised my ability to scrutinize their findings and resulted in a report which was sanitized and, therefore, less credible."
Didn't he marry the one on the left?
And here is how the judge in the case blasted the Yale-New Haven team's findings:
You are an idiot.
"Connecticut prosecutors launched a criminal investigation against Allen.
But in a controversial move, state's attorney Frank S. Maco announced in 1993 that while he found "probable cause" to prosecute Allen, he was dropping the case because Dylan was too "fragile" to deal with a trial."
I can see why the prosecutor didn't want to traumatize a little girl further.
There have been so many rumors of child abuse in the industry (most have been about child stars, and what they endured to be a star) you have to wonder if it's true that the powerful in that business will protect each other, and/or turn a blind eye to what they suspect.
So why was nothing done about it?