Tomorrow morning (Thursday, January 18th), Dylan Farrow will appear on "CBS This Morning" to speak on camera for the first time about her allegations that she was sexually abused by her father, Woody Allen, when she was seven years old.
This is sure to result in yet another spate of false information being spewed across the internet by Woody's defenders ("He was found innocent in court", "He passed a lie detector test by the police", "It was proved that Mia coached Dylan", etc.), so here are highlights from Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth's list of ten actual facts about the original 1992-93 case, just in case any ONTDers would like to be prepared to respond:
3. Allen refused to take a polygraph given by the Connecticut state police. Instead, his own legal team paid someone to give him a private polygraph. The police refused to accept the test as evidence.
4. Allen lost all four court battles connected with the abuse allegations: a lawsuit, a disciplinary charge against the prosecutor, and two appeals — and was ordered to pay more than $1 million in Mia’s legal fees. Judge Elliott Wilk, the presiding judge in Allen’s custody suit against Farrow, stated in his conclusion that there is “no credible evidence to support Mr. Allen’s contention that Ms. Farrow coached Dylan or that Ms. Farrow acted upon a desire for revenge against him for seducing Soon-Yi.”
5. In his decision, Judge Wilk found that Mr. Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.” According to the judge’s decision, Farrow told Allen (when Dylan was between two and three years old), “You look at her [Dylan] in a sexual way. You fondled her . . . You don’t give her any breathing room. You look at her when she’s naked.”
6. Dylan’s claim of abuse was consistent with the accounts of 3 adults who were present that day: two babysitters and a French tutor, who testified that Woody disappeared with Dylan for about 20 minutes and that shortly afterward, Woody was observed lying down with his head in 7-year-old Dylan’s lap while she stared “vacantly” at the TV, and that Dylan’s underwear had gone missing from beneath her sundress. All of these accounts contradict the statements of Dylan's brother, Moses, who now sides with Woody in claiming the abuse did not happen.
8. Allen changed his story about the attic where the sexual abuse allegedly took place. First, Allen told investigators he had never been to the attic in Mia's house (and wouldn't even know how to get there). But after his hair was found on a painting in the attic, he admitted that he might have been there once or twice.
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