Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States from Switzerland despite the fact that he raped a 13-year old back in 1977.
I don’t care how you paint it, that’s what happened. But because it was so long ago, people aren’t as outraged as they should be.
The evening before his sentencing in 1977, Roman Polanski, the sex offender, fled the country for fear of jail time. Last September Swiss police arrested Polanski after he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime career award at a film festival. He had been under house arrest since December.
Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said the Swiss government had rejected the extradition request in part because American authorities declined to provide confidential testimony from a January 2010 hearing on Mr. Polanski’s original sentencing agreement.
Swiss officials said records from that hearing would have established whether the judge who tried the case in 1977 had assured Mr. Polanski that time he spent in a psychiatric unit would constitute the whole of the period of imprisonment he would serve.
“If this were the case, Roman Polanski would actually have already served his sentence and therefore both the proceedings on which the U.S. extradition request is founded and the request itself would have no foundation,” the Swiss Justice Ministry said in a statement.
Let’s remember here that Roman Polanski, a sex offender, served a total of 42 DAYS. That’s it. He was never sentenced because the coward fled the country before the judge had the chance to sentence him. The judge had warned Polanski’s attorney’s that he may well be serving more time and/or be deported. That’s why the coward ran away.
So no, Switzerland, he did not serve his sentence!
Whether or not Polanski ever serves another day in prison, let’s not forget that this man is a sex offender. His victim was 13-years old. He had vaginal and anal sex with her. He came inside of the latter. He fed her alcohol and qualudes. She cried when it was over.
Like O.J., Roman Polanski will not have a punishment to fit the crime. But let’s remember what a sick, sad, perverted man this is for the rest of his pathetic life.
Read the Roman Polanski previously sealed grand jury documents HERE.
As I always say…karma. If our system doesn’t bring justice, he will encounter it at another time.