Anyone who thinks an adult telling about being molested as a child is a liar --

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300. I don't think Allen did it.

I think knowingly or unknowingly Mia Farrow planted the idea in Dylan's mind when Dylan was seven and Dylan still believes it to this day. I don't claim to be certain but that's my opinion of the most likely scenario after looking at all the facts.

1. The strongest point for me in all this is that the independent child abuse experts selected and employed by the prosecution gave their professional opinion that the incident never happened. I know Mia Farrow's side has criticized these experts and their investigation after the fact, but by all appearances this is a highly respected organization. To believe that these doctors and social workers who have dedicated their lives to fighting child abuse would let Allen get away with molesting his daughter because they were starstruck or some other such nonsense sounds like the craziest of conspiracy theories to me. I've read claims that they never interviewed Dylan directly, which is false. According to the New York Times, the lead doctor interviewed her nine times. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/nyregion/doctor-cites-inconsistencies-in-dylan-farrow-s-statements.html Here is a 2012 interview with the doctor about what the Child Abuse Center does: http://medicine.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=2502

2. I don't think a man becomes a first-time pedophile at the age of 57. And if Allen had previous victims, I think we would have heard from at least one of them since the 1992 allegation. That's not discounting how difficult it is in general for victims of child sexual abuse to come forward, but I think it would be easier with a man who has already been publicly accused, especially considering that public opinion of Allen was quite low after the Soon-Yi stuff came out. Victims of child molestation by Catholic priests started coming out with their stories a lot more once the general problem was widely known and they knew they were more likely to be believed.

I know some people see parallels between a man dating a much younger woman and having sexual feelings for a seven-year old, but scientifically speaking there is no such parallel. I don't think any psychologist with expertise in pedophilia would think it likely that a 57-year-old man with no history of pedophilia would suddenly start molesting or suggest that a man who liked to date young but post-adolescent women was at risk for turning his attentions toward first-graders.

3. If Allen wanted to molest Dylan, I don't think he would have chosen to do it in Mia Farrow's house in the midst of an acrimonious breakup and with a house full of people. The Vanity Fair article from 1992 claims that "often when Dylan went over to (Allen's) apartment he would head straight for the bedroom with her so that they could get into bed and play." http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211 Wouldn't one of these alleged occasions have provided an easier opportunity to molest Dylan than a closet-like attic in Mia Farrow's house? The allegation just doesn't make any logical sense. Why would Dylan's underpants be missing? Allen seems like the most incompetent child molester ever.

4. Mia Farrow's side has made a lot of claims and they just don't add up. They don't make sense. Not just about the alleged incident, but about everything. One of the reasons Allen lost his custody battle was the fact that he was not an involved father. The judge cited the fact that he didn't even know which kids shared which bedrooms. Yet Mia Farrow claims that he was a father figure to Soon-Yi and the other Previn kids? The idea that Allen was always weird and creepy with Dylan and that Mia was afraid to leave them alone together seems like after-the-fact rewriting to fit a narrative. I'm very familiar with people who do this. How does it fit with Dylan's recent claim that the abuse was done so "artfully" that Mia never had a chance to protect her? And the notion that Allen was Mr. Powerful and Mia Farrow was just a meek little nobody who was always afraid of him seems like malarkey as well. Farrow had plenty of power and status in her own right. Nothing about Mia Farrow and her contingent rings true to me. Her comment after the custody hearing that "I'm so proud of how (my children have) held themselves together, stood by one another and stood by me," strikes me as weird. I don't find her trustworthy and I don't think her personal history is any less bizarre than Allen's. That's just my gut instinct, far less important than the first three points, but there it is.