For Those of You Freaking Out About Woody Allen

[no_hypocrisy]

104. I'm torn.

I dealt with a contentious legal matter last year where my client, a mother of five, fought to prevent her parental rights from being terminated.

Her children were interviewed individually, alone, with the judge and later with two therapists. They were searching for testimony of abuse.

And the children claimed their mother neglected them and their father hit them. It didn't sound good at first impression.

Further examination of the totality of the circumstances found that the children were being brainwashed by their foster parents who wanted to adopt them. They had more money and material amenities in the foster home as compared to their original home.

When you compared their testimony, it was nearly identical. The kids had been rehearsed not only by their foster parents, but the child protection caseworker and even their assigned counsel. They stated their claims with great conviction.

I was the first to suspect false memory syndrome, where a child can be convinced that false information was fact, that something happened when it didn't. The judge agreed with me. The children were returned to my client. Matter of fact the judge didn't allow the children to return to say goodbye to the foster parents due to their contemptible role in trying to get the children to denounce their mother.

The children are now happily living with their mother, together. They all are on honor roles and take advanced classes. And they've had to take therapy to transition from the past 5 years of their lives.

My point: maybe Dylan Farrow is telling the truth, maybe not. More information is needed to know. All we can do is guess at this point.