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Sep. 30th, 2009 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deelaundryI have to admit that I have some sympathy for some people who have consensual sex with teenagers younger than age 18. There can be cases where both the adult and the teenager have the maturity to handle such a relationship. Can be. It's certainly not always the case, and erring on the side of caution is much better. With that said:
ROMAN POLANSKI RAPED HIS VICTIM. He did not have consensual sex; by his own admission and by the testimony of the victim, he ignored her clear statements refusing consent and went ahead and performed multiple sexual acts on her. That is RAPE.
Rape, murder, and treason are the three highest crimes in the US. If Polanski had sold nuclear secrets, would we say, "Oh, that's OK; let him go"? If he had killed a 13-year-old boy as the boy begged him not to, would we say that Polanski had "suffered enough by having to live in exile"?
More here, including details that are horrifying and may be triggering.
ROMAN POLANSKI RAPED HIS VICTIM. He did not have consensual sex; by his own admission and by the testimony of the victim, he ignored her clear statements refusing consent and went ahead and performed multiple sexual acts on her. That is RAPE.
Rape, murder, and treason are the three highest crimes in the US. If Polanski had sold nuclear secrets, would we say, "Oh, that's OK; let him go"? If he had killed a 13-year-old boy as the boy begged him not to, would we say that Polanski had "suffered enough by having to live in exile"?
More here, including details that are horrifying and may be triggering.
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Re: Polanski apologetics...
Date: 2009-10-01 02:16 am (UTC)Re: Polanski apologetics...
Date: 2009-10-02 04:51 pm (UTC)boys?coming forward...unless they've been payed off somehow. Sure he's had a hard life, but lots of people have had hard times and they're not committing crimes and blaming their pasts.Here locally we've had a murder trial in which the man's lawyer was trying to say that he'd had a brain injury as a child and that he may not have been able to control himself. Hah! He went all these years even in highschool with no violence and he JUST NOW couldn't control himself and murdered a woman? However, I believe he's been given the death penalty.
http://www.examiner.com/x-7403-Tampa-Crime-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Sentencing-hearing-in-Denise-Amber-Lee-case-Michael-King-faces-the-death-penalty-video