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

[El_Johns]

315. The fact that the media printed a retraction is hard evidence that someone from the clinic did

Last edited Thu Feb 6, 2014, 12:10 PM - Edit history (1)

in fact interview her. There would be no retraction otherwise. I've seen very little about the Yale-New Haven investigation except the repeated assertion that Leventhal didn't interview her.

I presume that's because child abuse investigations are PRIVILEGED and not a matter of public record.

I have no idea why they destroyed their notes and neither do you. That is another issue of *innuendo*.

BTW, FYI, Coates was brought into the household to work with Ronan on gender issues -- not for Dylan and sexually inappropriate behavior from Allen, as the tissue of innuendo and juxtaposition in the VF article would lead one to believe.

And here's what Coates said about all that:

The psychologist, Dr. Susan Coates, also testified that while she considered Mr. Allen's relationship with his own adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, to be "inappropriately intense," the therapist never observed him acting in a sexual way toward her. And she reported that an evaluation of Dylan conducted in 1990 found the girl easily "would be taken over by fantasy" when asked to describe something as simple as an apple tree.


Dr. Coates characterized Ms. Farrow's behavior as increasingly erratic as the months progressed. Dr. Coates testified that on Aug. 1 of last year Ms. Farrow called her after having learned that the affair with Ms. Previn was continuing. Ms. Farrow described Mr. Allen as "satanic and evil," Dr. Coates said, adding that Ms. Farrow pleaded with her to "find a way to stop him."

Dr. Coates testified she was taken aback after Ms. Farrow mentioned at another point in the conversation that she and Mr. Allen had the week before been discussing the possibility of getting married.


The psychologist testified that she first met with Mr. Allen and Ms. Farrow in 1990, as part of her preliminary evaluation of Satchel, whom she said was alienated from Mr. Allen at the time. She said the parents' own relationship was "in considerable trouble," with the two of them unable to agree on issues as small as whether or not Ms. Farrow should keep a child's thermometer in the house.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/02/23/reviews/farrow-doctor.html