Considering he was treated with kid gloves because he was a 'famous director', I'm not so sure he should be treated with more kid gloves because he's even more famous now.
The guy bloody fled the country to avoid going to jail. If he wasn't man enough to deal with his punishment then, he can bloody well stay away from the country as continuing punishment. No, him getting extradited and brought back to the US is rather silly (and even his victim says it shouldn't happen) but the guy still broke the law.
If it was your daughter Chaz, you wouldn't be so willing to say "Aww hell, you weren't punished at all, but you're obviously a good guy so c'mon back to the US."
At the very least, the victim should receive a very nice retirement fund.
---------- Post added 09-29-2009 at 12:02 AM ---------- Previous post was 09-28-2009 at 11:58 PM ----------
In case people forgot what he did:
In 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, became embroiled in a scandal involving 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. It ultimately led to Polanski's guilty plea to the charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
According to Geimer, Polanski asked Geimer's mother if he could photograph the girl for the French edition of Vogue, which Polanski had been invited to guest-edit. Her mother allowed a private photo shoot. According to Geimer in a 2003 interview, "Everything was going fine; then he asked me to change, well, in front of him." She added, "It didn't feel right, and I didn't want to go back to the second shoot."
Geimer later agreed to a second session, which took place on March 10, 1977 at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. "We did photos with me drinking champagne," Geimer says. "Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn't quite know how to get myself out of there." She recalled in a 2003 interview that she began to feel uncomfortable after he asked her to lie down on a bed, and how she attempted to resist. "I said, 'No, no. I don't want to go in there. No, I don't want to do this. No!', and then I didn't know what else to do," she stated, adding: "We were alone and I didn’t know what else would happen if I made a scene. So I was just scared, and after giving some resistance, I figured well, I guess I’ll get to come home after this".
Geimer testified that Polanski gave her a combination of champagne and quaaludes, a sedative drug, then kissed her, performed cunnilingus on her, penetrated her vaginally, and then penetrated her anally, each time after being told 'no' and being asked to stop.
Now quick, picture that crazy guy that stands on the side of the road with his "Free Cat" sign doing this. Does that change your mind on what kind of punishment the person should receive?
---------- Post added at 12:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 AM ----------
Oh, and just another piece of what Roman's punishment would have been had he not been a complete coward.
"If a person is more than three years older than the minor with whom they have sex, that person is guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony. If convicted of a felony, that person can be imprisoned in state prison for up to four years."
