Roman Polanski civil suit scheduled for 2025

[silverstarry]

A woman who alleges Roman Polanski raped her in 1973 when she was 16 years old filed a civil suit under a California law that extends the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. She originally filed her lawsuit in May 2023 but his lawyers filed to have her lawsuit tossed in November 2023. Last week, Judge H. Jay Ford III set a trial date of

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[angriest_girl]

Samantha Geimer needs to take a seat. She is entitled to feel how she feels about her own experience, but just because she wasn’t traumatised, doesn’t mean his other victims aren’t. This man is a serial CHILD predator, and by continually trying to hand wave away what he did, she’s being dismissive of all the other victims.

[silverstarry]

I have mixed feelings because she is allowed to feel however she feels, and it's understandable that her feelings may have changed over 40 years (in 1988, she sued him for intentional infliction of emotional distress and in 2003, she said, "Straight up, what he did to me was wrong" so at some point she knew none of this was acceptable). But none of that changes the fact that he has admitted repeatedly that he had sex with a 13 year old girl and then chosen to avoid returning to the United States to be sentenced

[januarysix]

her book is heartbreaking and it really does come across as being traumatized by the aftermath the most.

[skeetertuskin]

but she never mentioned his other victims and wasn't knowingly dismissing them? I believe at that time, Gaimer was Polanski's only known victim so she might have assumed that it was an isolated incident, "a mistake that he instantly regretted" as she put it.

[silverstarry]

At the time that Samantha made that statement in 2017, only one other victim had come forward (in 2010 British actress Charlotte Lewis said in an interview that he assaulted her in Paris in 1983 when she was 16).

[neev]

Plus, without blaming those other victims....she was essentially the torch bearer for bringing him to justice. I understand why they didn't want to come forward, given how she was treated, but she was doing it alone when their cases could have strengthened hers. Leaving it on her shoulders and then being mad when she finally says "fuck it, I'm done, this sucks and isn't achieving anything" is pretty unfair.

The real villains are the pieces of shit that have allowed him to live in Europe with impunity for decades

[aleksie]

The framing needs to be that Geimer's case is independent of the countless others. She's entitled to feel how she feels, and I don't blame her for wanting to put things behind her as much as she can.

But just because she feels the way she does about her case, doesn't mean Polanski should face the consequences of his actions. The other victims deserve better.

[ahkna]

Real talk: she's lying about not being traumatized but is trying to protect herself from the media, which absolutely does its best to re-traumatize victims.

[la_loony]

I understand that she wants this to finally be actually over and done, but I feel whatever the level of trauma is she feels she has been dealing with should not impact the sentencing. He still raped her and 42 days in the 70s is not enough of a prison stay for that, ever.