last thread needed about woody allen and his daughter

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12. I doubt anyone said the family court "proved guilt"

I could be wrong on that, but I assume everyone knows that legal guilt is determined by a criminal court. What this document shows is that the publicist's version that people have been repeating as though it were gospel is not accurate. The court did not find that Mia coached Dylan. The judge says there is no evidence for that and faults Allen for responding to the allegations about Dylan in the way he did. It says the New Haven finding is "unreliable." I'm still reading the document itself, so I can't comment on its entirety yet, but it clearly contradicts most of what has been said in defense of Allen, especially that Mia "brainwashed" Dylan and was an abusive mother.

My chief point has always been that we have Dylan's testimony from her letter in the NYTimes. The argument for not believing her was the allegations of brainwashing that Woody made in 1992 and Moses made in People magazine. The court refutes the charge of brainwashing. Allen's defenders will now have to find another excuse for refusing to believe the victim herself. And really, my chief complaint and that of many others I've read is the default disbelief of victims in favor of accused predators. That is the heart of rape culture and why so few rapes, whether of children or adults, result in conviction and jail time.

I believe Woody Allen is guilty, but I am not a court of law and have never claimed to be. I am one person with an opinion. I believe it because I believe Dylan. You want to decide Dylan is lying, your choice. But this document refutes the brainwashing excuse.