The 3rd episode of @realcrimeprofil podcast with @jessradio has made me think about Dylan Farrow and in particular the 1993 ruling concerning her custody which was published by Huffington Post in July 2014 and paints a damning portrayal of WA as a father.
1. “ There is no credible evidence to support Mr. Allen’s contention that Ms. Farrow coached Dylan.” #FamilyCourt
2. The Child Sexual Abuse Clinic at Yale–New Haven Hospital was asked to evaluate whether Dylan would make a viable witness.
Between September 18 and November 13 they conducted nine separate interviews with Dylan and her mother. #FamilyCourt
3. But the eventual study report was “sanitized and, therefore, less credible”. The notes were destroyed prior to the issuance of the report and the team was unwilling to testify in court. #FamilyCourt
4. Allen’s response to Dylan’s claim of sexual abuse, was an attack upon MF , whose parenting ability & emotional stability he impugned without the support of any significant credible evidence. His trial strategy has been to separate his children from their brothers & sisters.
“ To turn the children against their mother; to divide adopted children from biological children; to incite the family against the household help; and to set household employees against each other.”
“ we will probably never know what occurred on August 4, 1992...[but] Mr. Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and...measures must be taken to protect her.”
First and foremost, a climate where bullies are rewarded.
When they’re not held to account but rewarded with getting their own way because others are too scared to confront them, that is the perfect Petri dish for #coercivecontrol
Different rules for different people.
Making allowances for, or ignoring bullying/inappropriate/abusive behaviours of people we like or admire.
Holding them to a lower standard because they’re family, or a celebrity, or wealthy, or we benefit in some way from looking away.
I detest the term *parental alienation* with a passion and now I won’t use it.
It used to be called ‘Threat Therapy’.
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I’ve been told, frequently, that not all perpetrators are men, that mums get *alienated* too and that denying the existence of PA means denying that abusers DO and WILL maliciously sever a relationship between parent and child.
And yes, all of the above IS true.
But refusing to use that term is NOT the same as denying that this happens.
So, for avoidance of doubt, here is why I believe the term *parental alienation* should not be used:
Adolf Eichmann was aided by a Franciscan monk who helped him obtain an Argentine visa and who signed an application for a falsified Red Cross passport.
Eichmann masterminded the Nazi network of death camps that resulted in the murder of approximately 6 million Jews.
Josef Mengele fled to Argentina with the help of a Catholic clergy member.
Nicknamed the “Angel of Death” he conducted experiments at Auschwitz particularly on twins, pregnant women and the disabled. Mengele even tortured and killed children with his medical experiments.
“On one occasion, she said, male officers taped her phone to the ceiling, telling her: “We’re gonna watch your arse when you climb on the table.””
How a dead officer’s iPhone exposes misogyny, corruption and racism in a police force
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Ricky Jones, a retired police officer knew where many of Gwent police’s skeletons were buried, but it wasn’t until his death that his own began to emerge.
In 2020, he jumped to his death from a bridge.
He left behind his wife and three daughters.
To the outside world Jones was a respected former copper and family man. But behind closed doors he subjected his family to decades of #domesticabuse.