Former girlfriend of Woody Allen, who was a teen when dating Allen, defends him re: allegations

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27. The accusations did NOT come on the "heels of a custody battle."

Dylan told her babysitter than her father had been touching her inappropriately. The babysitter told Mia Farrow. Mia called her lawyer. The lawyer wrote Allen a letter. Allen then called a press conference and filed for sole custody. He LOST. The courts denied him custody as they believed Farrow the better parent. Unlike the false statements from Allen's publicists being regurgitated here like gospel, the CT prosecutor did not determine Dylan had been coached but concluded that as a child she would not hold up in a trial. Child abuse victims need support to go through a trial, and they need a prosecutor's office who will provide that support. Millions of child abusers and rapists are never prosecuted. That does not mean Mia coached Dylan. There is no evidence of that. The new evidence we have is of Dylan's own testimony in the NYTimes.

So Woody's old child girlfriend is wrong on the factual points. She appeared on Piers Morgan last night, so I watched her testimony. When Piers Morgan questioned her about the age of consent in LA, which was 18, Melkin suddenly changed her story on a dime to say they didn't get together until she was 18, after previously saying several times that she had been 17.

Melkin likes Woody Allen. She does not know even the chronology of events of the abuse case. She maligned Dylan and Rowan Farrow by saying Dylan was speaking up for publicity because Rowan has a new show on MSNBC. Now child abuse victim speaks up for "publicity." She has no book coming out, no law suit, no financial gain from any of this. Melkin engaged in the typical victim blaming that enables rape culture to thrive in this country.