WOODY ALLEN SAYS TEAM CLEARED HIM

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 19, 1993                   TAG: 9303190134
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW HAVEN, CONN.                                LENGTH: Short
WOODY ALLEN SAYS TEAM CLEARED HIM
A team of child-sexual-abuse experts cleared Woody Allen of Mia Farrow's charge that he molested their adopted 7-year-old daughter, the filmmaker and actor said Thursday.
The experts also recommended that Farrow undergo psychiatric counseling, he said.
Allen said he would seek custody of the girl and his other children.
Farrow had accused Allen of sexually abusing the child, Dylan, in August at Farrow's Bridgewater home. Farrow had been Allen's companion and favorite leading lady for 12 years until a bitter split last summer, when he disclosed that he was romantically involved with Farrow's 22-year-old daughter.
Allen and Farrow arrived separately Thursday at Yale-New Haven Hospital and were briefed together by three child-sexual-abuse experts on a report they compiled as part of a state police investigation of the allegations.
Allen emerged from the 2 1/2-hour meeting and told reporters and photographers that the report found "I never ever used my daughter, that no sexual abuse took place." And, he said, "There's a strong recommendation that Mia herself seek psychiatric help."
Farrow has an unlisted telephone in Bridgewater and could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. Her attorney, Eleanor Alter, did not answer calls to her home in New York.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB