Child-Touchers: Celebrity Case # 317

Roman Polanski has no plans ever to return to the United States, according to a legal filing Tuesday in his campaign to win dismissal of a long-ago criminal case in which he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.


The surprise move by Polanski seeking dismissal of the case on Dec. 2 has produced a blizzard of legal documents including a prosecution reply which exposed for the first time explicit sexual details of the assault on the girl in 1977. It said the district attorney’s office would fight dismissal and maintained the law requires that Polanski appear in person if he wants a hearing.


The Academy Award-winning director of 2002’s “The Pianist” lives in France and could not return for a scheduled Jan. 21 hearing without risking arrest. He is also unable to travel anywhere outside of France because of the outstanding arrest warrant dating to 1977. The motion did not mention whether he plans to travel and work anywhere else in the world if the dismissal is granted.

Prosecutors have cited the fugitive disentitlement doctrine of law in arguing that Polanski must appear or be barred from having his motion heard. Hummel argued that, before he fled the country, Polanski — whose films include “Tess,” “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby” — signed a waiver of his appearance at all hearings in the case.
“The waiver does not count anymore,” she said. “There is a warrant out for his arrest.”

Prosecutors say there should be no hearing if Polanksi is not present.

Complicating matters further is an affidavit filed Monday by the rape victim, Samantha Geimer, now 45, who wants the case dismissed in order to stop renewed waves of publicity.

Geimer, now a wife and mother of three who has been public about the case since 1997, said she feels she is being victimized anew by prosecutors who recite the “lurid details” of her assault in their legal papers.

We don't need no lurid details. The fact that she was 13 when this happened is lurid enough. If he ever leaves France, arrest that child-touching bitch!


MJ, R. Kelly. Are any child-touchers getting jail time anymore?!