A famous Director who has many classics to his credit, who is an Oscar winner once calls a young girl of 13 for a photo shoot. The girl who is awed by his stature agrees to go for it.
He makes her pose topless for him. She does it hesitantly.
He once again invites her for a photo shoot, a second one. This time he has made elaborate arrangements. He has prepared a hot bath for her, she complains of asthma and breathlessness as the steam suffocates her. He offers her Champagne and a Quaalude pill with the assurance that it will soothe her
After drugging her he sodomizes her. On the behest of her parents, the man is interrogated. The judge indicts him on 6 felony counts, which also includes rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy.
The man than pleads guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual abuse.
After pleading guilty, he flees out of the country on the day he is to be punished.
This man is the famous director who has classics like ‘Chinatown,’ and ‘Rosemary’s baby’ to his credit—Roman Polanski.
Now he is back after 32 years. He had come to US to attend a Film Festival and was arrested on the 26th of September.
Today the film fraternity is all out to protect him. They are trying to distract people by tapes which say that this act was committed 30 years ago. He has paid for his deeds by losing his family in a holocaust. He lost his pregnant wife Sharon Tate, who was brutally murdered by Charlie Manson’s Gang.
But does this in anyway nullify the gravity of his crime. The poor girl was traumatized for life.
Why was justice denied to Samantha while Polanski moved scot-free? Why did he flee if he was not guilty? The stature of the culprit does in no way reduce the gravity of his deed.
Had Polanski been a common man, a bus driver or the man next door, would the fraternity raise the same kind of furor.