You have the facts totally backwards.
There was also two sets of legal actions. The family civil proceeding, which would have proceeded on a "balance of probabilities" standard and the criminal proceedings, which would have proceeded on a "reasonable doubt" standard. It's much harder to prove anything on the reasonable doubt standard. Even on the civil standard, this was the judges finding, from page 22 of the ruling in the civil case:
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"Mr. Allen's relationship with Dylan remains unresolved. The evidence suggests that it is unlikely that he could be successfully prosecuted for sexual abuse. I am less certain however, than is the Yale-New Haven team, that he the evidence proves conclusively that there was no sexual abuse."
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So even on the lower civil standard, the judge couldn't conclude Allen was guilty.
Just because you can't find evidence of something, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The only way to get "credible" evidence of coaching would be to have a witness observe it or a recording of the event. It's interesting that me "suggesting" Farrow may have coached the child is totally outlandish, but every accusation you make against Allen, based on similar though processes are totally on point.
And, now there is credible evidence to suggest Farrow coached her child, her other son Moses:
http://people.com/celebrity/dylan-fa...s-woody-allen/
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“My mother drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister,” Moses, 36, tells PEOPLE in the magazine’s new issue. “And I hated him for her for years. I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi.”
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“Of course Woody did not molest my sister,” says Moses, who is estranged from Farrow and many of his siblings and is close to Allen and Soon-Yi. “She loved him and looked forward to seeing him when he would visit. She never hid from him until our mother succeeded in creating the atmosphere of fear and hate towards him. The day in question, there were six or seven of us in the house. We were all in public rooms and no one, not my father or sister, was off in any private spaces. My mother was conveniently out shopping. I don t know if my sister really believes she was molested or is trying to please her mother. Pleasing my mother was very powerful motivation because to be on her wrong side was horrible.”
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Listen, once again, no one knows but Allen if he touched her inappropriately. I'm not saying that he did or did not, but there are a lot of things about this case that are very bizarre. The 3 biggest ones:
1. Why would Allen choose that moment in time to start molesting this child? Right after his relationship with Soon-Yi had come to light and he was already under a lot of scrutiny. He's going to then use a supervised visit with his children to pull one of them away to an attic for a quick feel?
2. Dylan Farrow's evidence has changed over time as to how and what happened.
3.. Why is Mosses Farrow, Dylan Farrow's sister, supporting Woody Allen? If a grown man felt up my sister I would not be supporting him in any way. In fact, I'd be looking for a way to bash his face in. Moses Farrow is also a license family therapist. By lying about this issue, he would be violating every standard of his profession.
The fact of the matter is that over time, Mia Farrow's case has gotten less credible. Moses has come forward affirming everything that Allen said. Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi although coming from a very very weird place, seems to have developed into a normal adult relationship.