Samantha Geimer smiles as she poses with Roman Polanski for a photo 45 years after their liaison that so upset all the Wowsers and Puritans.
While [Mr. & Mrs. David Geimer] were in Paris, David took a photo of his wife and Polanski. They are all smiles.
Geimer told [a] French magazine:
“Let me be very clear: what happened with Polanski was never a big problem for me. I didn’t even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it. I was fine, I’m still fine. The fact that we’ve made this [a big deal] weighs on me terribly. To have to constantly repeat that it wasn’t a big deal, it’s a terrible burden.
“The extradition attempt, the fact that Roman was arrested like that, it was so unfair and so in opposition to justice,” Geimer also said in the Le Pointe interview. “Everyone should know by now that Roman has served his sentence. Which was… long, if you want my opinion. From my side, nobody wanted him to go to jail, but he did and it was enough. He paid his debt to society. There, end of story. He did everything that was asked of him until the situation went berserk he had no other choice but to flee. Anyone who thinks that he deserves to be in prison is wrong. It isn’t the case today and it wasn’t the case yesterday.”
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I commented at length, back in 2009, during the outbreak of national hysteria in which journalists on both political sides climbed up on portable pulpits and howled for Polanski to be extradited from Europe and flung into prison for sleeping with an underage young lady more than 30 years earlier.
Mike-SMO
As I recall, he also dosed her with some “street drugs”. If he then did nothing more than shake her hand, he is over the line into felony country. He needs to spend the rest of his life in a box with “Baby Huey”.
JDZ
Read the linked 2009 editorial by me.
Mike -SMO
And 13 years old….. if you can prove that the Mother was involved, make it a two-fer. A smart photographer has an assistant around. Felony!
JDZ
The statute of limitations must have long expired.
The age of consent laws vary wildly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and were often very different a few generations back.
Fusil Darne
There was a popular song at the time, sung by Sammy Davis Jr. and used as the theme song on the “Beretta” TV program. The first bar of lyrics said “ Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time”.
It occurs to me that the time might not just refer to what would be spent incarcerated, but, what demons will haunt you for your trespasses against others the rest of your life.
Roman, I’m sure, is haunted.
McChuck
43 year old (((Polanski))) took nude photos of, and then drugged, raped, and sodomized a 13 year old girl. And you’re cool with that?
As for consensual, “Gailey’s account differed: three decades later, she recalled, “It was not consensual sex by any means… It was very scary and, looking back, very creepy.””
JDZ
Read my analysis in the linked 2009 post.
JDZ
If the supposed victim is not angry with him, why should you be?
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