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In reply to the discussion: Anyone who thinks an adult telling about being molested as a child is a liar -- [View all]pnwmom
(110,259 posts)the Pascal children.
The medical team was paid by Woody. They concluded she had trouble distinguishing fact from fantasy because she talked about the dead heads in the attic. It turned out she was referring to Farrow's wigs that were on head-shaped blocks in the attic.
A seven year old is old enough to know what happened to her, and to have retained those memories over the years.
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/mia-farrow-frank-sinatra-ronan-farrow
In a 1997 Connecticut Magazine article, investigative reporter Andy Thibault quoted a deposition given in April 1993 by Leventhal: Regardless of what the Connecticut police wanted from us, we werent necessarily beholden to them. We did not assess whether shed be a good witness in court. Thats what Mr. Maco may have been interested in, but thats not necessarily what we were interested in.
The clinic cited Dylans loose associations and her active imagination as thought disorder. Dylan, for example, had told them she had seen dead heads in a trunk in the attic. When he was informed that Mia had a trunk in her attic in which she kept wigs from her movies on wig blocks, Thibault wrote, Leventhal acknowledged this was not evidence of a fantasy problem or thought disorder.
Thibault cited a litany of practices employed by the YaleNew Haven clinic that at least one expert put into question. Based on an examination of court documents and the report, he wrote, The Yale team used psychologists on Allens payroll to make mental health conclusions. He reported that the team had destroyed all of its notes, and that Leventhal did not interview Dylan, although she was called in nine times for questioning. They did not interview anyone who would corroborate her molestation claims. Judge Elliott Wilk, who presided over the custody hearing brought by Allen, wrote in his decision that he had reservations about the reliability of the report.
vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211
That day, August 5, Casey called Mia to report something the baby-sitter had told her. The day before, Caseys baby-sitter had been in the house looking for one of the three Pascal children and had been startled when she walked into the TV room. Dylan was on the sofa, wearing a dress, and Woody was kneeling on the floor holding her, with his face in her lap. The baby-sitter did not consider it a fatherly pose, but more like something youd say Oops, excuse me to if both had been adults. She told police later that she was shocked. It just seemed very intimate. He seemed very comfortable.