5th Polanski Victim Comes Forward: “I was 10 yrs old”

[culturesnark]

A fifth woman has come forward accusing Roman Polanski of sexual assault. She says she was 10 when it happened: https://t.co/hu33p0Njft pic.twitter.com/5pJCTcjwtH
- Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) October 21, 2017
The article details that in 1975, Polanski invited Marianne Barnard and her mother to a beach to photograph the then 10 year old girl in a

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[numbedtoe]

i say that because when i was a kid, and already a huge film buff, i was reading this thing in people magazine, and it was written about as no biggie. how he was persecuted. poor roman and on and on. and so me, being like 10ish (and this was 20 years ago) when I'm discussing current events with mom, i bring that up, totally regurgitating what the article said. Mom looks at me and goes, "he raped a child. Full stop. I don't care if he's the greatest filmmaker ever. he raped a child. he fled the country because he was guilty and afraid of the judge sentencing him as if he worked in a gas station, not hollywood."

that was the attitude in the press by and large though. not a big deal. long before that petition you'd see Free Roman tees. Even Madonna made this big thing about how he should be allowed back here. Society has made baby steps, and it has so far to go, in how it writes up some of these cases. so i think there are a lot who have no idea what it is they are talking about with the case. and that's on them too, don't get me wrong. they should be better informed.

And thankfully, that was when my mom taught me to start looking deeper to form my opinions. not everyone had my mom around lol

[29feb]

ia with you on the petition. it was the big show of the law coming for him at a film festival in switzerland at the request of the u.s. that the people in hollywoo got all defensive about. a lot of them didn't check the facts. i think of emma thompson who said she signed it because mike nichols asked her to but removed her name when fans explained what it meant. if they continue to ride for polanski now, then, they deserve their dragging. polanski was also gross to sharon tate which people don't know or remember about.

i remember when i found out about polanski and being so disgusted. this was in the earlier years you mentioned. i brought it up to my film friend and they blamed geimer (that she wasn't innocent, etc.). it was a dark time.

[evilpinkmonkey]

i remember seeing a late or mid-90s people magazine article that ranked directors and in the blurb for polanski, they basically acted like he was some sort of great persecuted genius who had been made to flee the country because of "statutory rape"--they were really emphatic about the statutory part