It's Roman Polanski all over again. Since a lot of gaffers like to live within neat white and black boxes where their opinions are defined, these types of conundrums appear. They like Woody Allen, they don't like kid diddling, so they're stuck. It's possible to like his movies and think of him as a pederast but that means gray spaces and gray spaces are triggering in their asspie minds. So they go the wrong direction and choose to downplay what he did. Also gaffers don't want to be known as wrong, ever. They'll fight to the death to make sure that they are vindicated in the end. Fucking losers.
Edit: Also like Polanski, there are gaffers who feel that you're allowed to get away with certain things because of what you've done. If you made a couple of good movies, you should get a pass on sodomizing a 13 year old. Woody Allen has made enough good movies (and bad movies) in their minds to excuse kid diddling.