Apparently a personal history including the Holocaust, Charles Manson, and being unable to accept one’s Academy Award in person is enough to give someone a free pass for rape, sodomy, and drugging children. 13-year-old children.

“What?!” you scream, outraged. “That’s impossible!”

Not if your name is Roman Polanski.

How is this a question, exactly? I don’t give a flying fuck who did what to you when, sexual assault of a child remains one of the most despicable crimes a human being (I use the term loosely) can commit. Fleeing the country before you can be sentenced of your crime, and going into exile (oh, woe is me, I am exiled, like a Russian aristocrat in the 1920s, have pity on me, just never mind that little girl I got all stoned and then fucked her little girl brains out, that doesn’t count; I suffered as a child during WWII AND my wife was murdered! I get to do pretty much anything I want now) doesn’t mean you can avoid the fact that YOU RAPED A LITTLE GIRL AND NEVER SERVED A DAY IN JAIL.

I’m sorry about your shitty life. I’m glad the girl has been able to move past it, I think that’s very fortunate for her. It’s still a crime against society, however, whatever some socialites may think.