What Is your take on Hollywerido Child Rapist Roman Polansk? – Answer by soccermom on Yedda

What Is your take on Hollywerido Child Rapist Roman Polansk ? Basically, he drugged and anally raped a 13 year old girl! This is ...

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American Patriot (thinks this answer is Helpful)

SM how do you know he isn't a serial pedophile.If he was remorseful why is he fighting extradition.He needs some celltime with big bubba

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Patriot, i have heard his statements. he is remorseful and knows what he did is wrong. he is fighting extradition for obvious reasons: doesn't want to face consequences...can't blame him for that. He is not a serial because there is not evidence of it for 30 years. i thought america is about innocent until proven guilty...so don't go accusing him without proof. no argument that he needs serve. I have no problem with bringing him back here to face the music. But, spending 80K/year on him may be waste of taxpayers money. In my eyes, the crime seems to have played itself out. I would be all for having him do community service, help out with some of our bills, etc.

This is a loose/loose situation. If we don't follow through, we are setting a bad prescedent, and if we do, we are costing the taxpayers a lot of money on someone who has not committed a crime for 30 years.. not a danger to society. I am luke warm on the whole thing.

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pattyp

I don't think we really know if he's a serial pedophile or not. . Children often are so ashamed and traumatized from sexual abuse that they never tell anyone. There must be something very basically wrong in an adult man to drug, rape and sodomize a 13 yr. old child. If you've seen any pictures of this little girl at the time of this crime - that's exactly what she looks like - a little girl. Whether it happened 30 yrs ago or not - he's an entitled, rich celebrity - and a criminal. He belongs in jail with the rest of the sex offenders.

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soccermom

Patty, if there is evidence and/or victims come forward to say that he is a serial pedophile, than lock him up and throw away the key...no argument with that!

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pattyp

Youi got that right!

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American Patriot (thinks this answer is Helpful)

soccermon I enclose the transcript read them and tell me if you still feel the same way???

Click here for transcript pages 1-18

Click here for transcript pages 19-36

Polanski The Predator Recently unsealed grand jury minutes detail 1977 sex assault

MARCH 11--It's been 26 years since Roman Polanski's arrest for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, but the director's Oscar nomination and the success of his film "The Pianist" has again focused attention on the March 1977 crime that prompted his French exile.
Polanski, 69, will not discuss the case and his victim, Samantha Geimer, now 39, has recently said that the sex assault should not color his chances with Academy Award voters. But that, of course, does not lessen the severity of the crime, which is graphically detailed in the following grand jury testimony, which was quietly unsealed four months ago by L.A. Superior Court Judge David Wesley.
Two weeks after Polanski plied her with Champagne and a Quaalude, Samantha Gailey appeared before an L.A. grand jury and recalled Polanski's predatory behavior in a Mulholland Canyon home owned by Jack Nicholson.
The teenager's troubling--and contemporaneous--account of her abuse at Polanski's hands begins with her posing twice for topless photos that the director said were for French Vogue. The girl then told prosecutors how Polanski directed her to, "Take off your underwear" and enter the Jacuzzi, where he photographed her naked. Soon, the director, who was then 43, joined her in the hot tub. He also wasn't wearing any clothes and, according to Gailey's testimony, wrapped his hands around the child's waist.
The girl testified that she left the Jacuzzi and entered a bedroom in Nicholson's home, where Polanski sat down beside her and kissed the teen, despite her demands that he "keep away." According to Gailey, Polanski then performed a sex act on her and later "started to have intercourse with me." At one point, according to Gailey's testimony, Polanski asked the 13-year-old if she was "on the pill," and "When did you last have your period?" Polanski then asked her, Gailey recalled, "Would you want me to go in through your back?" before he "put his penis in my butt." Asked why she did not more forcefully resist Polanski, the teenager told Deputy D.A. Roger Gunson, "Because I was afraid of him."
Following his indictment on various sex charges, Polanski agreed to a plea deal that spared him prison time (he had spent about 45 days in jail during a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation). But when it seemed that a Superior Court judge might not honor the deal--and sentence Polanski to prison--the director fled the country.
Below you'll find links to Gailey's grand jury testimony, the heart of which runs 36 pages (we've broken the transcript into two 18-page sections for easier navigation).

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soccermom

Patriot, no doubt, the guy was a creep. i have no problem or argument for those who would like to put him in prison. But, i can't get over the fact that it was 30 years ago and nothing has happened since. As far as we know, he has led a perfectly good life since. I just can't get all hot an bothered over it. Stuff happened to me 30 years ago, and i have moved on. It is not good to live in the past, especially since it has no relevance to today. the victim has moved on. Now, if she had not...different story. If he continued being a creep...different story.

That is my personal opinion, and i understand it has nothing to do with the law. He broke the law, went on the lamb, and now he should probably pay. Will i loose sleep if doesn't pay?..No. Do i personally want my tax dollars going to bring him to justice?..no. i would rather have those resources spent on someone who is reallly a danger to society...or maybe to help victims in some way, or education, or to help keep the state parks open, or bring down the debt...whatever. I am conflicted: in the long run, we should bring him to justice just because of precedence....short run waste of resources.

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