Posted on 07/12/2010 5:33:28 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
GENEVA — Switzerland said Monday that it won't extradite Roman Polanski to the United States for sentencing on a charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" was accused of plying his victim with champagne and part of a Quaalude during a 1977 modeling shoot and raping her. He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy, but pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.
What happened after that is a subject of dispute. The defense says the now deceased judge, Laurence J. Rittenband, had agreed in meetings with attorneys to sentence Polanski to a 90-day diagnostic study and nothing more. The judge later changed his mind and summoned Polanski for further sentencing — at which time he fled to his native France, attorneys say.
Polanski was arrested Sept. 26 as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival.
The film director has been held in Switzerland since then on an extradition request made by U.S. authorities.
He was allowed to move from prison to his Alpine chalet in December pending the extradition decision.
If the Swiss government decides to extradite him, Polanski would be allowed to appeal the order to the Swiss courts, setting up months of legal wrangling.
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So,
did he first meet her and have sex with her at 13 or 14?
Or did he politely wait until 15.???
Hmmmmmmmmm-—
still shows why he brags about having sex, forced or not, with extremely underaged girls.
Was he as old and wrinkly and ugly then as he is now?
And how old was the other girl who recently came forth???
“Think of him as already having been punished by the murder of his pregnant wife in 1969.”
Not to mention the victim has pleaded that he be released. If she doesn’t want another pound of his flesh, who does?
Let him answer for current beefs. If he is a pedophile, victims will surely surface.
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