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

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63. The courts did NOT decide there was no abuse.

The prosecutor held a press conference at which he explained that he had enough evidence to bring the case to trial, but he decided that it would be too hard on the 7 year old girl to put her through that.

The judge in the family court looked at the evidence and decided to end Woody's visitation with Dylan. He said that the Yale-New Haven report wasn't reliable.

So which court are you saying decided there was no abuse?

Dr. Diane Schetky is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont, and the co-author of the textbook Child Sexual Abuse and co-editor of Clinical Handbook of Child Psychiatry and the Law.

http://www.andythibault.com/columns/CT%20Magazine%20-%20Apr%2097.htm

The Yale team used psychologists on Allen's payroll to make mental health conclusions. "That seems like a blatant conflict of interest; they should have excluded themselves," Schetky says.

· Custody recommendations were made even though the team never saw Allen and any of the children together. "I'd sure want that information," Schetky says.

· The team refused to interview witnesses who could have corroborated the molestation claims.

· The team destroyed its notes. "I don't know why they would," Schetky says. "They shouldn't have anything to hide, unless there's disagreement."

· Leventhal, the only medical doctor on the team, did not interview Dylan. "How can you write about someone you've never seen?" Schetky asks.

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Days later, Maco held a press conference in which he said state police had compiled enough evidence to charge Allen with a crime, but that he'd decided not to approve an arrest warrant in order to spare Dylan the trauma of a trial.