In a searing 33-page decision, New York state Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk gave Mia sole custody of the couple’s three children: Moses, 15, Dylan (both adopted) and Satchel, 5. Wilk ruled that Allen’s “self-absorption, his lack of judgment and his commitment to the continuation” of his relationship with Soon-Yi, which impedes “the healing of the injuries he has already caused, warrant a careful monitoring of his future contact with the children,”
While Woody’s two-hour visits with Satchel will be increased from two to three times a week, they must still be supervised by social workers. (Woody may appeal that.) He can see Dylan within the next six months, in “a therapeutic context.” Moses doesn’t have to see Woody unless he wants to.
Although a team of Yale-New Haven investigators exonerated Woody of Dylan’s charge that he sexually abused her, Wilk was “less certain . . . that the evidence proves conclusively that there was no sexual abuse.” But what bothered him most was Woody’s affair with Soon-Yi, now 22. He “never considered the consequences . . . and still fails to understand that what he did was wrong,” Wilk wrote.
After the decision, Mia told reporters, “It will be a long road until we wake up to a really normal day.” Indeed, last week a hearing began on her petition to nullify Woody’s 1991 AIMAN-SYGMA adoptions of Moses and Dylan. It’s closed to the public, so Woody-Mia junkies will have to be content with the “He Said / She Said” comic book due out this week-including a Soon-Yi centerfold. It can’t be any tackier than the true story.
