Dylan Farrow: Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?

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10. No, it isn't. The prosecutor didn't bring an argument for probable cause to the judge

because of the fragility of the victim. It was the prosecutor who stopped the process, not a judge.

However, the article you posted in 1993 has been discredited by a great deal of further reporting, including this article four years later in Connecticut Magazine, and several in Vanity Fair.

The doctor on the panel didn't conduct a single one of the 9 interviews. He signed off on the report but never interviewed Dylan himself. The interviews were conducted by a couple of social workers -- and the transcripts were thrown away.

The "Maco" referred to below is Frank Maco, the Litchfield County State's Attorney.

http://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/mia-farrow-s-vanity-fair-interview-references-connecticut-magazine-article/article_4327cac7-ffef-5eb5-9c19-fdaf70e84855.html



Maco had commissioned the Yale study with instructions to determine whether Dylan was a viable witness who could stand up in court. He said that enlisting Yale’s assistance was the biggest mistake he made in the case.

“Regardless of what the Connecticut police wanted from us,” Leventhal said in an April 1993 deposition, “we weren’t necessarily beholden to them. We did not assess whether she’d be a good witness in court. That’s what Mr. Maco may have been interested in, but that’s not necessarily what we were interested in.”

Yale, Maco says, “took the case and ran away with it. I gave their report very little weight.”

An examination of the Yale report and court documents shows:

• 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 they’re in 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.

• The night before Leventhal gave a statement to Farrow’s attorney, he discussed the scenario with Abramowitz, the head of Allen’s legal team, for about 30 minutes.

• The team interviewed Dylan nine times. For three consecutive weeks, she said violated her sexually. In several of the other sessions, she mentioned a similar type of abuse. When Dylan did not repeat the precise allegation in some of the sessions, the team reported this as an inconsistency.