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Roman Polanski detained in Zurich

The basis to start down that road is the rape of a 13 year old girl, so your claim that there is no basis at all is quite bizarre.

I'm not interested in following you around in circles like a canine preparing his bed. Since he didn't have a sexual interaction with a prepubescent child to begin with, there's no basis for conclusion that he has any kind of sexual attraction to prepubescent children, let alone that he meets the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. :2wave:
 
Roman Polanski's 'victim' is mother who wants charges dropped - Telegraph



I know what he did was terribly wrong and sick, although there are questions about whether or not he knew she was only 13 years old at the time, but shouldn't the wishes of the only person who really matters here be taken into consideration? Why aren't the victim's wishes respected? She wants the charges dropped.

This whole case is a mess. A mother who offers her 13 year old daughter to a sleazy older guy, who then proceeds to drug and rape her despite her protests. Even if he thought she was legal he DID force himself on her. A judge who agrees to a plea bargain and then changes his mind, forcing the guy to flea the country. The poor confused girl pleading for the charges to be dropped so she can go on with her life without having to be brought back into the spotlight time and time again.

Something's got to give here. I mean come on. Leave the woman alone already. She's done with this ****.
I understand your sentiment. But consider, if the man was a farm laborer, and the woman a waitress, might we not think that the man needed to be prosecuted to protect the pubic, bearing in mind that convictions help protect the innocent by providing examples that no one is above or beyond the law.
 
I understand your sentiment. But consider, if the man was a farm laborer, and the woman a waitress, might we not think that the man needed to be prosecuted to protect the pubic,,,

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I understand your sentiment. But consider, if the man was a farm laborer, and the woman a waitress, might we not think that the man needed to be prosecuted to protect the pubic, bearing in mind that convictions help protect the innocent by providing examples that no one is above or beyond the law.

I see your point. However, without the victim's cooperation the case would be pretty hard to prosecute.
 
He should have been a responsible adult about this instead of running off and letting things fester.
 
Since he didn't have a sexual interaction with a prepubescent child to begin with, there's no basis for conclusion that he has any kind of sexual attraction to prepubescent children,

Really now lets see he pleid guilty to have sexual intercorse with a Child under the age of 16, so are you saying he didn't have Sex with this 13 year Old Girl who under both US federal and Calf. State Law is consider a prepubescent child.

Further more do you have actual proof that this Scum of Humanity hasn't done this before or after. There has been allot of rumors about this Scum for allot of time way before he raped this Child.
 
What I can't believe is the attitudes and statements coming out of some people. Claiming he made a small mistake in the past and that he's a great film director. Well I don't care if he's the Pope, he drugged and raped a little girl and I can't understand how any human could label that as a small mistake. It's repulsive.
 
Source to support this statement?

Really now lets see he pleid guilty to have sexual intercorse with a Child under the age of 16, so are you saying he didn't have Sex with this 13 year Old Girl who under both US federal and Calf. State Law is consider a prepubescent child.

Do you two know what prepubescence is? There's no legal boundary for it; it refers to the condition before puberty when menarche or spermarche has not been achieved and secondary sex characteristics have not developed.
 
Do you two know what prepubescence is? There's no legal boundary for it; it refers to the condition before puberty when menarche or spermarche has not been achieved and secondary sex characteristics have not developed.

And what part of both federal and State Penal Code don't you understand that anyone under the age of 16 is consider prepubescence god are you that thick in the head.
 
And what part of both federal and State Penal Code don't you understand that anyone under the age of 16 is consider prepubescence god are you that thick in the head.

Is that a fact? Are you under the impression that the average age at which puberty begins is 16? Realize you've made a mistake and run along, dear boy. :2wave:
 
Is that a fact? Are you under the impression that the average age at which puberty begins is 16? Realize you've made a mistake and run along, dear boy. :2wave:

Who gives a rat's a$$ whether she was younger or older than puberty. She was well under the age of consent, so he committed statutory rape.
 
Who gives a rat's a$$ whether she was younger or older than puberty. She was well under the age of consent, so he committed statutory rape.


From the accounts I've read, he committed rape - statutory and otherwise. He drugged her, performed cunnilingus, penetrated her vaginally and anally, climaxed in her anus, all while she said no.
 
Well I read it on the following BBC,NBC,CNN,Fox to name a few also The US State Dept. is going to have anew release on Monday.

As for the appeals by what I have read he gets two and they must happen with-in 60 days of the offical extration request. This is what the Treaty that the USA and Swiss have.

It's pretty much avery done deal he will never go back to France and his Cushy Life Style trust me on this one. he will end his day in Pelicon Bay with the rest of the Scum. My hop eis that they put him in with some rapist now that would be justice.

I've been in Pelican Bay State prizon, (tour before it opened) and if that is where he is sent, he will pay for his crimes.... that is hell on earth.
 
Do you two know what prepubescence is? There's no legal boundary for it; it refers to the condition before puberty when menarche or spermarche has not been achieved and secondary sex characteristics have not developed.
Yes, I know what this long word means.
I also know that you cannot base or support the claim that Polanski "didn't have a sexual interaction with a prepubescent child to begin with", but I would love to see you trying.
 
Who gives a rat's a$$ whether she was younger or older than puberty. She was well under the age of consent, so he committed statutory rape.

I'm discussing the inaccurate application of the term "pedophilia."

Yes, I know what this long word means.
I also know that you cannot base or support the claim that Polanski "didn't have a sexual interaction with a prepubescent child to begin with", but I would love to see you trying.

For one thing, she was past menarche, as her testimony attests to the fact that she and Polanski were discussing whether she'd had her period recently during their interaction, aside from the fact that he wouldn't have had prepubescent children without secondary sex characteristics for a modeling session anyway. Opposing every single statement I make on this forum isn't the best outlet for your resentment, lad; you'll inevitably end up wrong quite often. ;)
 
For one thing, she was past menarche, as her testimony attests to the fact that she and Polanski were discussing whether she'd had her period recently during their interaction, aside from the fact that he wouldn't have had prepubescent children without secondary sex characteristics for a modeling session anyway. Opposing every single statement I make on this forum isn't the best outlet for your resentment, lad; you'll inevitably end up wrong quite often. ;)
Awwwwww, you're on to me. :(

No but I'd really like the source for your above claims.
 
That was stupid of him; perhaps he didn't know of their extradition treaty.

He has a house in Switzerland and travels their regularly.

That said, a pedophile is an individual who experiences prolonged sexual attraction to prepubescent children; it's a misapplication of clinical terminology to describe Polanski as one.

How about-- Academy Award Winning Child Rapist?

Woody Allan singed the petition, along with a ton of other hollywood elite. If Roman had been their accountant/biz manager and made off with $50mil of their money, they'd be screaming bloody murder to get him back to the states.

But a 13-year-old in a hot tub, they give a pass... Sickening. IMO.
 
I heard some radio station while driving between clients this afternoon and some woman from the artsy fartsy crowd was lamenting the point that the "poor" Romani Polansky's parent died in the Holacasut and he survived the Warsaw ghetto therefore he "deserves a break today" just for those "reasons".

Well my parents survived forced labor camps at the hand of the Germans so do I get to behave badly and blame it all of the Nazi's !
 
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Steve Lopez, a far left Liberal journalist gets it:


Polanski's defenders lose sight of the true victim

So-called crime?

Let's get back to the grand jury testimony.

Polanski has taken the girl to Nicholson's house to photograph her, ostensibly for a French magazine. The girl's mother, it's clear to me, should have had her head examined for allowing this to happen, but that's another matter.

The girl says Polanski, who was in his 40s at the time, opened a bottle of champagne and shared it with her and with an adult woman who later left for work. That's when Polanski allegedly began taking pictures of the 13-year-old and suggested that she remove her blouse.

Quoting again from the grand jury transcript, with the girl being questioned by a prosecutor:

Q: Did you take your shirt off or did Mr. Polanski?

A: No, I did.

Q: Was that at his request or did you volunteer to do that?

A: That was at his request.

She said Polanski later went into the bathroom and took part of a Quaalude pill and offered her some, as well, and she accepted.

Q: Why did you take it?

A: I don't know. I think I must have been pretty drunk or else I wouldn't have.

So here she is, at 13, washing down a Quaalude with champagne, and then Polanski suggested they move out to the Jacuzzi.

Q: When you got in the Jacuzzi, what were you wearing?

A: I was going to wear my underwear, but he said for me to take them off.

She says Polanski went back in the house and returned in the nude and got into the Jacuzzi with her. When he told her to move closer to him, she resisted, saying, "No. No, I got to get out."

He insisted, she testified, and so she moved closer and he put his hands around her waist. She told him she had asthma and wanted to get out, and she did. She said he followed her into the bathroom, where she told him, "I have to go home now."

Q: What did Mr. Polanski say?

A: He told me to go in the other room and lie down.

She testified that she was afraid and sat on the couch in the bedroom.

Q: What were you afraid of?

A: Him.

She testified that Polanski sat down next to her and said she'd feel better. She repeated that she had to go home.

Q: What happened then?

A: He reached over and he kissed me. And I was telling him, "No," you know, "Keep away." But I was kind of afraid of him because there was no one else there.

She testified that he put his mouth on her vagina.

"I was ready to cry," she said. "I was kind of -- I was going, 'No. Come on. Stop it.' But I was afraid."

She said he then pulled off her panties.

Q: What happened after that?

A: He started to have intercourse with me.

At this point, she testified, Polanski became concerned about the consequences and asked if she was on the pill.

No, she told him.

Polanski had a solution, according to her.

"He goes, 'Would you want me to go in through your back?' And I went, 'No.' "

According to her, that didn't stop Polanski, who began having anal sex with her.

This was when the victim was asked by the prosecutor if she resisted and she said, "Not really," because "I was afraid of him." She testified that when the ordeal had ended, Polanski told her, "Oh, don't tell your mother about this."

He added: "This is our secret."

But it wasn't a secret for long. When the victim got home and told her story, her mother called the police.

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His victim, who settled a civil case against Polanski for an unspecified amount, said she does not want the man who forced himself on her to serve additional time.

That's big-hearted of her but also irrelevant, and so is the fact that the victim had admitted to having sex with a boyfriend before meeting Polanski.

Polanski stood in a Santa Monica courtroom on Aug. 8, 1977, admitted to having his way with a girl three decades his junior and told a judge that indeed, he knew she was only 13.

There may well have been judicial misconduct.

But no misconduct was greater than allowing Polanski to cop a plea to the least of his charges. His crime was graphic, manipulative and heinous, and he got a pass. It's unbelievable, really, that his soft-headed apologists are rooting for him to get another one.


Polanski's defenders lose sight of the true victim -- latimes.com
 
From the accounts I've read, he committed rape - statutory and otherwise. He drugged her, performed cunnilingus, penetrated her vaginally and anally, climaxed in her anus, all while she said no.

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He has a house in Switzerland and travels their regularly.

How about-- Academy Award Winning Child Rapist?

Woody Allan singed the petition, along with a ton of other hollywood elite. If Roman had been their accountant/biz manager and made off with $50mil of their money, they'd be screaming bloody murder to get him back to the states.

But a 13-year-old in a hot tub, they give a pass... Sickening. IMO.

Wasn't Woody putting his woody into an underaged girl who was also his step daughter. So the way I see it it's just a piece of trash defending a piece of scum.
 
Well the latest is the French have drop their request and it looks like Poland is backing away also.
 
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