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| Time Deserved for a Crime Committed |
| By nytimes.com |
| Published: 09/30/2009 |
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The matter of Roman Polanski, film director and fugitive from conviction for forcing sex on a 13-year-old girl, has been followed carefully in Harlem by Rachel Lloyd. Mr. Polanski — director of “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby” — was arrested in Zurich last week after having been on the lam, in great style, since 1978. He is being held for extradition to California. “They gave him a standing ovation at an awards ceremony a couple of years ago,” said Ms. Lloyd, the founder of the Girls Educational and Mentoring Service, an organization that looks after girls and young women in New York who have been sexually exploited. “I couldn’t believe that.” Government ministers in France and Poland have said that pursuing Mr. Polanski after all these years is disgraceful, dismaying, the work of “an infernal machine.” Major figures in the film world have signed a letter declaring their “stupefaction” at his arrest. You might think he is a Polish incarnation of the Scottsboro Boys. In March 1977, Mr. Polanski, 43 at the time, invited a 13-year-old to pose for pictures in a magazine he was guest-editing. He took her to Jack Nicholson’s house on Mulholland Drive and gave her Champagne and a Quaalude. He knew she was 13; he called her mother to tell her they were running late. Then he had oral and vaginal sex with the girl. After learning that she was not on the pill, he penetrated her anally. Read More. |
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