Comments by "cchris874" (@cchris874) on "" video.

I don't think anyone necessarily lied here. Even Woody and Cathy Young , for example, don't accuse Dylan of lying. Mia may well have come to sincerely believe her daughter, for all we know. There's only so much we can be certain of. There's certainly no obvious smoking gun that says Dylan is lying. Is there?
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@rl12345 I'm being a little lazy because I don't have all my sources in front of me. But, only if its convenient and you feel like, kindly feel free to share the way her story changed. I'm unaware of what she said about civil court. I'll try to look that up. I personally don't find Woody any more trustworthy. He certainly was wrong about the train set suddenly entering the picture. If he were being totally credible, why didn't HE challenge her to meet him in person and query him directly. If I were innocent, I'd fight much harder to clear my name. In his self-serving response to her in the NY Times, he said "of course" he was innocent. What made him think his readers would know he was innocent? That's insulting the reader. I think he's a total and complete jerk. I am not about to declare him guilty because of this. But he's a man with extremely poor boundaries, and his claim he sees no moral issue with the Soon-Yi relationship is indicative of this. His actions tore the family apart. Even Cathy Young, a Woody supporter, and who is a favorite of mine, called it deplorable.
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@rl12345 Thank you Yes, I remember the part about trouble distinguishing reality from fantasy. As far as changing stories, the HBO series plays one of the videos of Mia asking questions of Dylan, time stamped the very next day after the alleged charges. Once again, journalist Cathy Young admitted it was convincing. There was no sense, at least in that video, of Mia pushing her to any conclusion. She said he touched her "privates." I'm wondering where she got that from. Could Mia have implanted this suggestion within just 24 hours and have the story more or less stick from then on? I guess anything's possible. To me, after digesting most of the major claims and facts, my intuition is more in favor of Dylan's side of the story. But you can make a pretty good claim in support of Woody too. So I doubt there will ever be a solid proof either way.
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@rl12345 Very good arguments. But I have taken to distrusting Moses because Moses sided with Mia and the other siblings at first. It was many years later he did this complete about face. Without explaining this disconnect, and except for Dylan and Soon-Yi, all the other children siding with Mia on the abuse question, that makes him in my book a more questionable witness. In addition Moses was 100% wrong about no train in the attic. As you probably saw, one of the later HBO episodes pointed out that the police went up to the attic for obvious reasons, making a very detailed diagram of where everything was. Lo and Behold, there is the train set! So Moses must not have known what was in his own attic, I guess. As I just stated in another thread, it shows you can never trust anyone's claims.
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@rl12345 Obviously you are more informed than I. Did you see the police diagram showing the train set's position in the attic? I think Dylan's story mentioned that early on. Any thoughts on those "20 missing minutes?" I had not realized how concerned they were at the time until I saw how it was presented in the HBO series. Maybe that's a staged presentation. But Woody told Mia in one of the phone calls where she want to know where he was, that 'the truth will come out." I don't think he ever gave the truth on that point after 30 years. Do you have a record of him ever explaining himself? Why not just say, "we went for a walk," or we were playing in the attic with the train, or whatever.
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@rl12345 Regarding Moses, the thing I remember most are his allegations of Mia's constant abuse. Did he ever say anything about that one way or the other before he came out with that more recently? That's my impression, he wasn't saying that before 2014 or whatever it was.
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@rl12345 Thanks. Now the question is, were these isolated incidents, or a pattern of abuse.
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