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In reply to the discussion: Woody Allen Speaks Out [View all]Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Here's the information on the prosecutor's statement:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/24/nyregion/panel-criticizes-prosecutor-in-inquiry-on-woody-allen.html
As to your next point, I frankly have no idea what you're talking about. It doesn't matter if Woody met her on a movie set or on the dark side of the moon. They were two adults. The fact that they were both in a relationship with Mia Farrow at the time is fodder for cheap tabloids, but not for anything else. There have been at least a half-dozen episodes of "Jerry Springer" on the same topic.
Moving along...
The medical evidence was not forthcoming? I think you don't know your facts. There was a medical examination of Dylan Farrow after the alleged incident by experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital who found that the child had "difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality." And there was a six-month investigation by the Connecticut State Police, which found that the child's testimony inconsistent.
http://amradaronline.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/yale-new-haven-hospital-allen.pdf
The reason there was no prosecution was not to spare Dylan, but because of the following statement from the report: "It is our expert opinion that Dylan was not abused by Mr. Allen. Further, we believe that Dylan's statements on videotape and her statements to us during her evaluation do not refer to actual events that occurred to her on August 4, 1992."
As a prosecutor, you'd have to be insane to go to trial with your own medical experts and your own police investigators finding against you.
The facts of the matter remain:
There was no medical evidence of molestation.
The six-month criminal investigation yielded nothing.
Allen has never before or since been accused of anything of the sort.
Nothing. And I mean nothing you have posted does anything to budge these three statements.