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Horst Baer's avatar

I watched this high-wired entity, my vibes disavowed him. A good *tribe's man* is always double-tongued, speaking truth is an obstacle course !!!! As British historian, David Irving, remarked ***truth is their enemy and/or they are the enemy of truth***!!!!

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Mia and Dylan Farrow vs. Woody Allen – child sexual abuse, incest

1980: Hollywood celebrities Mia Farrow and Woody Allen got together. At that time, Farrow had a daughter Soon-Yi, then age eight, whom Farrow had adopted with her second husband, André Previn. Soon-Yi never lived with Farrow and Allen, but they did spend family time together over the years – there are published pictures to prove it.

1992: Farrow filed for divorce from Allen, finding pornographic pictures of a then twenty-year-old Soon-Yi taken by Allen. Allen said he and Soon-Yi were “a fling,” but a step-father sexually engaging his step-daughter, even if she was not legally adopted, is not called a fling. It’s called incest.

During the divorce, Farrow made allegations that her husband had also sexually abused her daughter, Dylan, when she was seven years old – whom Allen had legally adopted. He denied abusing any of their children, though the formal investigation yielded serious findings about genuine harm he had caused, his lack of fitness as a parent, and the need for his careful supervision around children. Yet Allen was never prosecuted in the case nor found guilty of sexual abuse.

In 1997, Allen married Soon-Yi Previn – his former step-daughter! –– and the couple have two adopted children together. Due to their family relationship, this remains founded in emotional and sexual incest.

By 2014, seven-year-old Dylan Farrow had grown up, married, and found support and stability in her life. She also found her voice, publishing an open letter about her history of sexual abuse by Allen in the New York Times. It was clearly written, detailed, and to my read, highly believable. Allen condemned her action as “a ploy” and said she was “brainwashed” by her mother as a child. Yet the investigations hadn’t found that at all; the only negative judgment of Mia Farrow was that she stayed with Allen as long as she did.

In May of 2016, Woody Allen’s son and Dylan Farrow’s half-brother, Ronin Farrow, made a statement in support of his sister and condemning the media for their “codependence” to Woody Allen by not pressing his father enough over the sexual abuse allegations. Allen continued to deny all allegations. Another son supported Allen. Dylan Farrow is the journalist who broke the Weinstein scandal - taking a stand for truth and against sexual exploitation, and in doing so, changing the world.

Yet even today, how do we forget the hiding-in-plain-sight incest of Soon-Yi, who was a child when she met Allen in the role of a step-father? It’s astonishing to me, and adds heavy weight that Farrow, Farrow and Farrow are the truthful parties, Allen is sexually pathological, and justice has yet to be served.

To learn more about healing from incest, two favorites are A Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz, and – Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners by Ken Adams.

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