Kris Wilson Smith

Having lived through sexual abuse within my family, watching this documentary rings so many bells that we also didn't want to hear. As we looked back on the years prior to finding out what had happened, we could see the incidents in which we should have known something wasn't right. But that's what a family member conducting the abuse relies on; they rely on you believing that a family member could never do such horrendous things. It breaks my heart today to look at pictures of one of them knowing at such a young age the abuse had already started. What bothers me the most about this documentary is that the District Attorney told the Farrow family that he should not have convinced them not to go through with the trial - he knew he had enough evidence to know the abuse was real. He thought the chaos that would be created with such prominent movie stars would be too much to handle. That's not right; if our DA had not been forthright to bring our abuser to trial it would have been condoning his behavior. Our family member also created a companion relationship much like Woody has done with Soon Yi, even buying wedding rings for a future marriage. God bless the Farrows for doing this. The world becomes much too complacent when not believing sexual abusive acts take place. As my youngest found out when she questioned her friends if they had ever been sexually abused, 7 of 8 sitting with her one night confessed they had been. But those families brushed it off because it was a family member. Believe them, believe even the youngest, believe even when one says it happened while the other denies it - she hasn't been taught to lie yet.