ANATOMY OF AN ALLEGATION OF ABUSE. ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY OF DAYS 4, 5 AND 6 AUGUST 1992 WHEN THE ALLEGATION OF ABUSE AGAINST WOODY ALLEN EMERGED
PREVIOUS.-
Since March 1991 Dylan Farrow had two weekly therapy
sessions with Dr. Nancy Schutz.
From January 13, 1992, as a result of the break that
occurred when discovering that Woody Allen had started a relationship with Soon
Yi, Mia Farrow only allowed supervised visits of Woody Allen with children[i]. She gave precise instructions so that the nannies
would never leave Dylan or Satchel alone with Woody Allen [ii]. On August 4th, two nannies were left, Kristi Groteke
and Sophie Berge, with express instructions not to leave any of the two
children alone with Allen.
On August 1, after thinking for months that the relationship
between Woody Allen and Soon Yi had ended in January of 1992, Mia Farrow
learned that the relationship continued, apparently because they told her.
After finding out, Mia Farrow telephoned Dr. Coates, whom she asked for help to
"find a way to stop him"[iii]
August 4th was the first time that Woody Allen had
seen children since Mia Farrow had learned that his relationship with Soon Yi
continued and, as far as we know, it is also the first time that Mia Farrow and
her friend Casey Pascal was seen from August 1 and the conversation about how
to stop Woody Allen with Dr. Coates.
On August 4, at the home of Mia Farrow, in addition to
Moses of 14 years, two children, each in the care of a nanny. Kristi Groteke
had the direct and express charge of taking care of Dylan.
CHRONOLOGY
BETWEEN THE 1ST AND THE 4TH OF AUGUST.-
Between day 1 and day 4 of August different events
take place that we can not date with precision, but that configure the real
situation of day 4.
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Immediately before August 4, Mia Farrow began recording her telephone
conversations with Woody Allen. As far as we know from the court statement, no
exact date is indicated, but the expression "immediately before and
after" identifies a moment between day 1 and 4 without a doubt. [iv]
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In those same days Mia Farrow contacts and hires the lawyer Eleanor Alter, [v] specialist in judicial divorces.
Eleanor Alter was one of the most recognized and most expensive divorce lawyers
in the country ($ 400 per hour)[vi] . Considering that day 1 was Saturday and day 2
Sunday, it seems reasonable to think that Mia Farrow contacted her on day 3 ...
Or
even 4?
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Specification of the custody agreement between the lawyers of Mia Farrow and
those of Woody Allen. Although we do not know if the agreement negotiations
were closed immediately before day 1 or just after, we know that on day 4 Mia
Farrow's lawyers were working on the final draft to send it to the lawyers of
Woody Allen. At least on day 3, Mia Farrow's lawyers were convinced that an
agreement had been reached. Eleanor Alter was not part of Mia Farrow's legal
team.[vii]
DAY 4 AUGUST.
On August 4, sometime in the morning, Casey Pascal
arrives with her children and her nanny, Alison. Casey Pascal is a friend of
Mia Farrow since the days of Marymount School, "a private boarding school
in Kingston, England, and have been close ever since" according to Kristi
Groteke "Casey was the single person she was completely trusted, the
single friend who was there for her all the time”[viii]
. It's the first time that friends have seen each other since Mia Farrow has
confirmed that Woody Allen continues her relationship with Soon Yi and they
will spend all day together.
At some point on August 4 Mia Farrow calls her lawyer
Martin Weltz and tells him to stop the referral to Woody Allen's lawyers from
the text of the agreement. Mia Farrow says she has "disturbing news",
but does not say what it is.[ix] Considering that since she returned
with Casey Pascal to the house she was with Woody Allen, it seems reasonable to
think that she made the call while she was with her friend. In any case, as far
as we know, Mia Farrow does not inform Woody Allen that she has paralyzed the
signing of the agreement.
At the time Woody Allen arrives at the house there are
three nannies, Kristi Groteke, Sophie Berge and Alison Stickland, with express
instructions not to leave Dylan or Satchel alone with Woody Allen at any time.
According to Mia Farrow, when she leaves the house,
Moses Farrow is walking around alone. Moses notes that he was already in the
house when Woody Allen arrived.[x]
According to Mia Farrow's memoirs, Woody Allen was in
the house "a couple of hours”[xi] before she and Casey Pascal
returned. Therefore, everything that will be told next took place in a space of
between two and three hours.
The children began to see in the TV Room the movie
"Who framed Roger Rabbit”. [xii] While
they were watching the movie, Woody Allen arrived to make his weekly visit and
went to the TV Room. The TV Room was described by Kristi Groteke in her book as
a "Tiny TV Room"”[xiii], and in it they were when Woody Allen arrived at the
three children of Casey Pascal John (9 years old), and her adopted twins, Emma
and Kate, (6 years old), Moses (14 years old), Sarchel (4 years old) and Dylan.
That is, there were six children between 4 and 14 years old in that small room.
While watching the movie, the three nannies were in
the kitchen having tea.
It was while they were all together watching the movie
on the TV Room that Alison went to the TV Room to look for one of the children
of Casey Pascal. She leaned out just a moment and later would say she saw Woody
Allen with his head resting on Dylan's lap. Whatever she saw, at that time she
was not worried enough to intervene, nor to decide to stay in the TV Room with
the children, nor to mention it to the nannies of Mia Farrow. Whatever she
explained to the judge she had seen, Wilk makes no mention that what the nanny
witnessed could be any kind of abusive or improper conduct.
According to the allegation of abuse, at some point
after the film Sophie Berge and Alison went out into the garden (the large lot
with a small lake in Mia Farrow's house) along with the three children of Casey
Pascal and Satchel. None of those who went out to the garden realized that
Allen and Dylan had disappeared.
Kristi Groteke stayed inside the house, she says she
looked for Allen and Dylan and when she did not find them she assumed they
would be out with the other nannies, but she did not check it. ("After looking
for them in the house, she assumed that they were outside with the
others", says the ruling of Wilk)
In her memoirs Kristi Groteke expressly states that
from her point of view on day 4 everything was normal [xiv], with the exception that we will see later.
No one has explained how three babysitters with
express instructions to take care of Dylan and watch Allen did not realize that
Allen and Dylan had disappeared. In fact, it is incomprehensible that they did
not realize that only Dylan had disappeared. And if she was drowning in the
lake or had fallen and hurt herself in some corner of the house? Apparently,
losing sight of the girl did not bother anyone.
It is also not easy to explain how it could happen.
When the movie was over and everyone else went out, how is it possible that no
one noticed that Woody Allen and Dylan were not there? We are not just talking
about nannies. Did not any of the children say anything? In addition to Moses,
who was 14 years old and has related the events of that day saying that nothing
happened, there was a 9-year-old boy and two other 6-year-old children. In any
case, the same day 4 nobody noticed that Dylan and Woody Allen had disappeared
-not together or apart- for a while and only "retracing their steps"
days later the nannies came to the conclusion that they had not seen to Woody
Allen and Dylan for a period of 15 or 20 minutes[xv] (or maybe only 10 minutes, as Kristi
Groteke also says in her book [xvi])
Moses' account of events, published on his own blog,
can be summarized by saying that at the age of 14 and in the absence of his
mother he felt the "man of the house" that day and was watching Woody
Allen and taking care of Dylan throughout moment. That
nothing happened.
Later, when Mia Farrow and Casey Pascal arrived at the
house, Sophie Berge or Mia Farrow realized that Dylan was not wearing
underwear. Mia asked Sophie to put it on without giving any importance to the
issue. Kristi Groteke herself explains in her book that it was not something
extraordinary or worrisome. When Dylan was asked about the underwear, she
replied that he had taken it off because she had wet it without giving further
explanations.[xvii] Although throughout the next day she
would be asked expressly if her father had taken it off, she denied it. This is
the only strange fact in relation to day 4 that Ktisti Groteke points out and
she explains that it had multiple explanations. That's why at the moment it did
not attract attention or worry to anyone.
On the way back home by car, Alison Stiklan tells
Casey Pascal what she has seen on the TV Room. Whatever the content of the
conversation was, Casey does not consider it necessary to phone Mia Farrow that
day, although Woody Allen was going to spend the night at the house.
DAY 5 AUGUST.
Casey Pascal telephones Mia Farrow and tells her what
Alison has said to her the day before. Mia asks Dyla and the girl, according to
Judge Wilk's ruling
Ms. Farrow
testified that after
she hung up the
telephone, she asked
Dylan, who was
sitting next to
her, "whether it was
true that daddy
had his face
in her lap yesterday." Ms. Farrow testified:
Dylan said
yes. And then
she said that
she didn't like it one
bit, no, he was breathing into her, into her
legs, she said. And
that he was holding
her around the
waist and I said, why
didn't you get up
and she said she tried to but that he put his hands
underneath her and touched her. And
she showed me where . . .
". Her behind.
According to Mia Farrow's memoirs, the first statement
was more extensive and already included the fundamental details of the
allegation. According to Mia Farrow's memoirs, the first statement was more
extensive and already included the fundamental details of the allegation. It
also expressly stated that Woody Allen would have played Dylan's private parts
on the TV Room
She
told me he was holding her around the waist and that when she tried to
get up he
“secretly put one
hand here”— she pointed—
“and touched my privates, and I
do not like that one bit.”She told me that Woody had taken her
upstairs into the attic, and that he
had touched her private parts
with his finger.
“Don’t move,” he had said to
her. “I have
to do this.
If you stay still, we can go to
Paris. Don’t tell.”“He was
kissing me,” Dylan
said. “I got
soaked all over
the whole body . . . I had to do what he said. I’m a kid, I have
to do whatever the grown-ups say . .
. It hurt, it hurt when he pushed his finger in . . .
he said the only way for me to be in the movie is to do this. I don’t
want to be in his movie. Do I have to be in his movie? He
just kept poking it in .
. .”[xviii]
Another difference between the two narrations is in
the question that gives rise to Dylan's first claim. Mia Farrow asks the girl
why she did not get up when her father had put his head in his lap. A question
that, considering the circumstances, could be understood by the girl as that
she had done something wrong
It is not entirely clear when Mia Farrow began
videotaping Dylan's questioning, not even if she did it before or after the
first visit to the pediatrician.
In any case, all the narratives agree that after the
first allegations of Dylan Mia Farrow immediately called her lawyer Eleanor
Alter. As we have said, Eleanor Alter was not part of Mia Farrow's legal team[xix] and had been hired in the days
before this call, but the reason has never been explained. Eleanor Alter was
part of the elite divorce lawyers in New York and it is hard to think of
someone more qualified to give the best legal advice to the issue that was
planted. Eleanor Alter recommends Mia Farrow to take Dylan immediately to the
pediatrician.
Although it is an exercise in speculation, it is
reasonable to assume that Eleanor Alter gave Mia Farrow an adequate response to
the query that was put to her. Going to the local pediatrician to record and
submit the complaint to the police is appropriate response when the complaint
is "when I was going to get up from the couch my father has restrained me
and touched my parts", but it is not at all when the complaint is "my
father took me to the attic and there he kissed me and put a finger in my
vagina (which is rape) and he hurt me". We are not talking about an
inexperienced lawyer who may be thought to act without knowing the cause. The
reasonable thing is to conclude that the first statement of Dylan and the one
that motivated the call of Mia Farrow to Eleanor Alter did not include any
mention to the supposed facts of the attic. That story would emerge
later on, during the next 24 hours during which Mia Farrow would interrogate
the girl.
It is also difficult to believe that, faced with an
allegation of the seriousness of the rape, Eleanor Alter allowed Mia Farrow to
interrogate the girl on her own with a video camera; I would certainly have
recommended her to go immediately to a specialist or directly to the police. Do
not forget that the problems caused by this decision to any investigation was
highlighted by the expert contracted by Mia Farrow
Dr.
Herman noted that it was
"unfortunate" that Mia, and
not an objective and trained evaluator, videotaped Dylan's testimony,
mainly because the way she focused on specific things could possibly "set
a tone for a child about how to answer.
I think it could raise anxieties of a child." In short, he
said, "I don't think it helps
matters, I think it complicates
matters."[xx]
As Judge Wilk himself pointed out
Her
decision to videotape Dylan's
statements, although inadvertently
compromising the sexual abuse investigation, was understandable.
We are in 1992. The great scandal provoked by the
interrogations of the McMartin case is known throughout the country. It is
impossible that Eleanor Alter was not perfectly aware of the problems that the
recording of Mia Farrow (an interview by a non-specialist) could provoke. It is
impossible for her to treat a rape allegation in that way.
Mia Farrow goes to the pediatrician. Before the
pediatrician talks to Dylan, Mia Farrow explains what happened so far. This
is how Kristy Groteke narrates it [xxi]
At this news, Mia immediately contacted Eleanor Alter, who calmly advised
her to take the child to her local pediatrician, Dr.Kavirajan. Mia did
so. First, she spoke to the doctor
privately, describing to him what
Dylan had told her had occurred the
previous day. Then Dr. Kavirajan took Dylan into his office alone. Here, he asked the child to tell him what had
happened.
Dylan
hesitated, then said merely that Woody
had touched her."Where?" asked Dr. Kavirajan."On the
shoulder," Dylan managed to say,
then immetately, nervously, asked to
leave the room to rejoin her mother.In the car on the way home, Mia asked Dylan
gently butffrmly, "What is the
truth? What you told me? Or what you told Dr. Kavirajan?" And Dylan replied, "What I told
you." Then she hesitated and added, "But I don't like to talk about
my privates."
The
moment she got home, Mia called Dr. Kavirajan
and told this to him. He noted that Dylan's reaction was a common one in
children who had been molested, and that Mia should bring her back in the
next day.
As can be seen, Dylan's interaction with the
pediatrician is consistent with a narrative according to which his father
touched her when she was going to get up from the chair, but absolutely out of
place if we assume that his father has taken her to a secluded attick and He
has sexually abused her there.
Everything indicates that the original story of Dylan
was limited to saying that when she had wanted to get up his father had grabbed
her and that by holding her he had touched her private parts.
Upon leaving Dr. Kavirajan's office, Mia Farrow asks
Dylan if the truth is what she has told the doctor or what he has said to her,
and Dylan replies that what he has said to her, but she does not like to talk about her private parts with
strangers.
For the next 24 hours, Mia Farrow recorded a 15-minute
tape. A compilation of 11 or 13 episodes (varies according to the sources) in
which Dylan would narrate her that her father took her to the attic and there
inserted a finger in her vagina. Richard Marcus, the head of the Police
Department's Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit from 1983 to 1988 and who testified at
the trial as Woody Allen's expert identified several directing questions
A
(referring to a transcript of the video): Page 3, Line 13: It starts off OK,
but before the child can respond . . . Mia Farrow asks, `How did he touch you?
With what?'
Q:
Continue with the basis for your opinion.
A:
Page 8, Lines 7 and 8: Mia Farrow asks, `And what did he do? Did he take your
underpants off?' Here on Page 8, again 17 and 18: . . . `And after he was
touching you, he said,' - to me that smacks of prompting, trying to remind the
child of what she said previously . . . Page 10, Lines 23, 24, 25: `So when you
went into the attic . . . you just forgot it, you just didn't have any on, is
that it?'
Q:
What is the significance of that?
A:
Of course, it's leading. It's trying to remind the child of something she may
have missed saying earlier, as if you were refreshing her recollection. On Page
18, Lines 17 and 18: `And it still hurts you?' Again, that's a leading question
and in a way reinforcing the child's prior comments.
Q:
Directing your attention to Page 14, Line 20: Is that another example of a
leading question?
A:
I'm sorry. Yes. `Did he stick his whole finger in?'
Marcus
also said the videotaped statement wasn't spontaneous and contained any inconsistencies
about what occurred, how, and even what part of Dylan's body was involved.[xxii]
DAY AUGUST 6
When
Mia Farrow is on her way to the pediatrician's office she receives a call from
Kristi Groteke. Mia is very calm and, apparently, has a phone in the vehicle or
a mobile phone (which would also have facilitated the phone calls of day 4)
I can't really
talk right now," Mia said when I phoned her from Boston on Thursday,
August 6, 1992, "but I have
to tell you that Woody molested
Dylan." I had been upin Beantown visiting Mark Page, the lead
guitarist in my old college band (I played the guitar and was the band's vocalist), and I had had a weird, nagging, ESP type of feeling
that something was amiss back at Frog Hollow. But I never expected this.
"What???" I screamed
into the receiver, then when her
word sank in, I added, "Oh, God."
There was a long silence before Mia
picked up the conversation. In a quiet
voice she told me that she was on her way to her doctor's office to have Dylan
examined, but that I should call her later.[xxiii]
We already said that for Kristi Groteke on day 4 it
was totally normal, now we also know that she would never have expected an
allegation of this kind to arise, which can only be interpreted as that, not
only did she not see anything on day 4 that made her think that something
inappropriate might have happened, but in the year she had been working as
Dylan's nanny, she had not noticed anything that made her think that Woody
Allen could sexually abuse her.
Before entering the pediatrician's office Mia Farrow
says to Dylan "We wanted to help Daddy, he forgot to act like a daddy."[xxiv]
In Dr. Karavijan's practice Dylan repeats the story
that she had told her mother. It is not clear if what Dylan tells the pediatrician
is simply that her father has touched her in her private parts or if she makes
a narrative that includes the allegation of abuse in the attic. The first
physical examination of the girl was done on the 9th, so on day 6 none was
performed. The pediatrician also did not examine Dylan for the allegation of
pain in the vagina that apparently appears in the recording according to the
testimony of Mia Farrow.
When she gets home, Mia Farrow says to nanny Monica
Thompson: Everything is Ok now. Everything is set. Mia Farrow seemed "very
happy and excited for herself” [xxv]
Already at home, Mia Farrow receives a phone call from
the pediatrician, who tells her that he has discussed the situation with his
lawyer and must report to the authorities.[xxvi] It is striking that pediatricians
might have some doubt about their obligation to report to the authorities if
Dylan's narrative included the allegation of having been removed from the other
children, taken to a attic and raped. It seems that it can not be ruled out
that Dylan would simply say that Woody Allen had touched her private parts
since no pediatrician would consult his lawyer about the obligation to report a
rape.
After receiving the phone call from Dr. Karavijan, Mia
Farrow called Dr. Coates. Although there are some widespread versions of the
events that place this call on day 5, everything indicates that it was made on
the 6th. First, because it was picked up by Mia Farrow in her memoirs and it is
not an isolated event , but linking the conversation with the one she had
previously had with Dr. Karavijan: in the content of that conversation Mia
Farrow points out that she told Dr. Coates that Dr. Karavijan was going to
inform the Connecticut authorities and that Dr. Coates pointed out that, in such
case, she would give notice to the New York authorities, therefore the
conversation should have taken place on the 6th after the second visit to Dr.
Karavijan and after his phone call.[xxvii]. In addition, this chronology is compatible with
Wilk's ruling and the court ruling clearly indicates that Dr. Coates
immediately notified the facts to Woody Allen before notifying the authorities
and we know that communication with Woody Allen occurred on the 6th. The
expression "immediately" indicates beyond Any reasonable doubt that
if Dr. Coates communicated the facts to Woody Allen on the 6th, it can only be
because he received the call from Mia Farrow on the 6th.[xxviii]
At some point
of the day, Moses Farrow approaches Monica Thompson and tells her that his
mother is making up the allegations against his father.
Thompson added that on one occasion
almost immediately after the alleged incident, Moses, 14, another child Allen
and Farrow adopted, indicated doubts about what, if anything, had taken place.
"Moses came over to me and said
that he believes that Ms. Farrow had made up the accusation that was being said
by Dylan," Thompson said in an affidavit.[xxix]
It can not be
forgotten that at that time Moses was a fierce and loyal supporter of his
mother, who would publicly support her in a strict manner every time he had the
chance, however even then privately and the nanny she had known for seven
years. (the time that Monica Thompson had been taking care of the children of
Mia Farrow) expressed clearly that nothing that was being said that had
happened just two days before was not true. The two statements of Moses, one
made privately 26 years ago and the one made publicly on his blog in 2018 are
fully consistent. In fact, the declaration of 2,018 allows us to understand why
the child who was a fierce and loyal supporter of Mia Farrow was convinced that
nothing had happened two days before.
The same day
6 (or perhaps the 7th day, there is no total agreement on the date) Kristi
Groteke picked up Monica Thompson from Mia Farrow's house and took her to the
station. Monica took her vacation and would be away for several days. At that
time the two spoke briefly of the events, and although their versions diverge
in significant detail, both indicate that they spoke of the allegation of abuse
and that Kristi told Monica that she had not lost sight of Dylan nor five
minutes a day. 4
The version
of Monica Thompson
Thompson said that the next day
Kristie Groteke, Dylan's baby-sitter, drove her to the bus, and her fellow
employee was "very upset."
"She told me that she felt
guilty allowing Ms. Farrow to say those things about Mr. Allen. (Groteke) said
the day Mr. Allen spent with the kids, she did not have Dylan out of her sight
for longer than five minutes. She did not remember Dylan being without her
underwear."[xxx]
The version
of Kristi Groteke
The next afternoon, when I had completed the three-hour drive from Boston to Bridgewater, I
headed over to Mia's to pick up Monica Thompson, who also helped with the children.
I
used to drive her to the bus station from Frog Hollow. On this day Monica, a large black woman of
about forty, was going home to Jamaica
for her vacation and not planning to
return until September. So I beeped the
horn, and she came out, lugging her bag.
A grim look on her face, she slid into the seat beside me.
I didn't say anything at first, but as soon as we pulled out of the driveway, I asked
her, "Monica, what happened? What's
going on?"
She shrugged and said,
"I don't think anything happened. I think Mia is exaggerating.
She's tDnng to make you feel bad for not staying with Dylan the entire
day."
The alleged molestation, Monica said, had occurred two
days earlier, on Tuesday, August 4, L992. However, Monica
knew only the sketchiest details of what had supposedly transpired. Although
she had been working for Mia for
seven years, they weren't close at all,
and so I played dumb and agreed with her.
Yes,
I said, Mia must have been
stretching the truth. And no, I didn't remember
leaving Dylan alone with Woody.
Then, without asking----or answering-any more questions, I drove back to
Frog Hollow, my foot on the gas pedal
the whole trip. My conversation with Monica would one day come back to haunt
me.[xxxi]
[i] "Mia
Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag 283
“After January 13, I didn´t
leave him alone with any of my kids”.
[ii] "Mia Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag
295
“I had a trustworthy
baby-sitter, Kristie, and that
summer we also
had Sophie, a
French tutor for
the children; I told them both never to leave Woody alone with Dylan.”
[iii] Mia & Woody.
Love and Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol
& Graf, 1994, pag 225-26
“ …that August when Mia
learned that Soon-Yi had been fired from
camp and Woody was continuing to see her. Mia called Susan
Coates and began their
conversation by begging the doctor to "find a way to stop him."
[iv] https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/07/nyregion/tale-of-the-tape-more-telephone-recordings-in-the-allen-farrow-fight.html
“… Earlier in the trial Ms.
Farrow testified that she had used her son Fletcher's equipment to tape
"two or three" phone calls with Mr. Allen immediately before and
after Aug. 4, the day Ms.Farrow has asserted that Mr. Allen molested their
7-year-old daughter, Dylan.”
“After talking to Dylan, Mia
telephoned Eleanor Alter, a New York divorce lawyer she had recently retained
as counsel. Alter advised her to take Dylan to the family pediatrician
immediately. “
[vii]
Según Mia Farrow, el acuerdo se había
alcanzado varios días antes, pero sin ninguna concreción.
"Mia
Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag 295-96
Woody and I
had already agreed
to a legal settlement, scheduled to be signed on August
6, defining our rights and responsibilities with regard to the children. Most
important, it ensured that his contact
with the children would be supervised. And it did not entitle him to spend the
night at our home. I was eager for that
date to arrive
because, despite the
obvious distress his
visits were causing to my family and my repeated requests
that he sleep elsewhere, he
insisted on staying at Frog Hollow. Just then I didn’t press the point further because I
feared he would try to have that privilege written
into the settlement
contract.
[viii] Mia & Woody.
Love and Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Rd First Carrol
& Graf, 1994, pag 39
[ix] New York Magazine, September 21, 1992, pag 37
https://books.google.es/books?id=3uQCAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
On august 4, just hours before the document was to be delivered to Allen
and Farrow for signing, says Weltz, Farrow called him and said she had some
disturbing news. Later, she would allege that Allen had molested Dylan in the
attic of her Connecticut home during his visit that day.
[x]
http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html
As the “man of the house” that day, I had promised to
keep an eye out for any trouble, and I was doing just that. I remember where
Woody sat in the TV room, and I can picture where Dylan and Satchel were. Not
that everybody stayed glued to the same spot, but I deliberately made sure to
note everyone’s coming and going. I do remember that Woody would leave the room
on occasion, but never with Dylan. He would wander into another room to make a
phone call, read the paper, use the bathroom, or step outside to get some air
and walk around the large pond on the property.
[xi] "Mia
Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag 295-97
[xii] The Washington Post, April 12, 1993, Paula Span “Courtroom Notebook”
It was one of those
babysitters who set all this in motion. Mia and two of her kids had gone out
shopping with her friend It was one of those babysitters who set all this in
motion. Mia and two of her kids had gone out shopping with her friend Casey
Pascal on Aug. 4, leaving Dylan and Satchel and the Pascal kids at Frog Hollow
with a bevy of young caretakers. "Who Casey Pascal on Aug. 4, leaving
Dylan and Satchel and the Pascal kids at Frog Hollow with a bevy of young
caretakers. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was popped into the VCR while the
sitters had a cup of tea in the kitchen. At some point Woody Framed Roger
Rabbit" was popped into the VCR while the sitters had a cup of tea in the
kitchen. At some point Woodyarrived to visit with his kids, toting large
shopping bags from Toys R Us. arrived to visit with his kids, toting large
shopping bags from Toys R Us.
[xiii] Mia & Woody.
Love and Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol
& Graf, 1994, pag 31
[xiv] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 129
“From my point of view,
everything seemed normal on August 4 except for one thing.”
[xv] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 129
The truth is, when we retraced our steps that day, there were only
fifteen to twenty minutes in which Dylan
was out of my sight, Sophie's, Casey's, or Alison's. Of course, those are the suspect "twenty
minutes" when, Mia
alleges, the molestation must have occurred.
[xvi] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 22
I was about to recount the events of August 4, 1992, the summer afternoon when, under my lapsed vigilance, Woody spent between ten and twenty
minutes alone with his adopted daughter
Dylan
[xvii] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 129
From my point of view,
everything seemed normal on August 4 except for one thing. That afternoon, for
reasons nobody has ever been able to
explain, Dylan, at age seven-an age when
all children usually have a well-developed sense of modesty-was wandering around in her billowy white sundress, but
without her underpants. Nobody knew where
they were. Nobody was ever able to locate them. Nor did Dylan ever admit that
she knew where her panties were. She
said that she didn't remember what had
happened to them.
[xviii] "Mia Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag
299
[xix]New York
Magazine, September 21, 1992, pag 37
https://books.google.es/books?id=3uQCAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
[xx] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 169
[xxi] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 130-31
[xxii] Newsday, April 7, 1993. “Abuse or Hug? Molest debate
at Woody-Mia trial. SIDEBAR: Getting Ugly: Child- Sex-Abuse Charges at
Woody-Mia Trial” by David Kocieniewski
[xxiii] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 125
[xxiv] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 131
[xxv] Los Angeles Times February 2, 1993
[xxvi] "Mia Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag
300
The doctor called
later to tell me
that he was required
by law to notify the
authorities, and he
was going to
do so although
the physical exam of Dylan
showed no sign of sexual
abuse.
[xxvii] "Mia Farrow. A memoir. What Falls Away" pag
300
I phoned
the therapist who’d
been working with
Woody for almost two years aboj.it his behavior with Dylan. As soon as I
told her what Alison
had seen him
doing, she interrupted,
“He’s not
supposed to do
that.”I told her all of it, and she said that if the Connecticut doctor
was going to report it, then she would have to report it as well to the New
York authorities. But
first she was
going to tell Woody.
[xxviii] Newsday March 30, 1993 “I Helped Her Mia cites Woody
on Soon-Yi affair” by David Kocieniewski
When Coates. who was paid by Allen,
confronted Allen with the sexual abuse charges on Aug. 6, 1992 - just a day
after Farrow first raised the charges – Allen was stunned, she said. "He
sat on the edge of his chair, his eyes grew wide and he said, I'm completely
flabbergasted,'" Coates said.
[xxix] Los Angeles Times February 2, 1993
[xxx] Los Angeles Times February 2, 1993
[xxxi] Mia & Woody. Love and
Betrayal. Kristi Groteke with Marjorie Rosen, Ed First Carrol & Graf,
1994, pag 135-26
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