Regarding the response to Dylan Farrow's letter:

[jeff47]

95. Yeah, it sucks when someone has a different opinion.

And yes, you also expect children to remember the exact dates they were raped.

We're talking about off by years, not exact date. Including remembering other details that are false - such as living in the previous or next house.

I don't give a shit what Mia Farrow does. This isn't about Mia fucking Farrow.

"Angry spouse coaches child to claim abuse" happens often enough that social workers and police have procedures in place to try and separate those accusations from real accusations. As a result, Mia Farrow's actions become relevant - she was enraged about Soon Yi. Also, the accusations that she pressured a nanny to lie can't be ignored - that isn't to say they're true, just that they need to be investigated.

Here comes McMartin again.

Well, it's the poster child for false memories of sexual abuse. It's going to come up in any situation where someone claims recovered memories of sexual abuse.

But it's also illustrative of the difference of mis-remembering and lying. Some of the McMartin kids remember being abused so vividly that they have suffered the psychological scars of real abuse.

Dylan needs support and help, no matter what. Whether or not Allen needs to be locked up needs to be determined by an investigation to cut through the murk.