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In reply to the discussion: last thread needed about woody allen and his daughter [View all]BainsBane
(57,771 posts)That they did not follow professional standards means their findings are suspect.
The finding of fact is the legal record. Your opinion is not every bit as valid as his. He heard the testimony and evidence. You did not,
Mia is not the one making the accusation: Dylan is. Dylan told multiple people at the time of the assault including a therapist on Allen's payroll, who violated her professional ethics and the law by not only concealing that information but lying about it. There are witnesses that saw Dylan return from being alone with Woody with NO PANTIES. She first told her boss, who then told Mia. Mia did not even initiate the story. Your determination to put it on Mia is proven false by the legal record, by the witnesses who recounted what they say, by even the therapist on Allen's payroll who reported the assault to NY Child services.
There is NO evidence that Mia is lying. Woody Allen's publicity machine spun a web of lies. You want to believe it because he is rich, powerful, and male. You want to assume the child is lying because she is female. Be honest. All your determination to believe "Mia is the liar" based on zero evidence is your own bias, nothing else. It is the kind of bias against victims and in favor of accused perpetrators that is all too common. It is central to the propagation of a rape culture where 25% of our population (largely but not exclusively women) are sexually assaulted during their lifetimes and only 3% of those rapes result in conviction.