Should Roman Polanski go to jail for raping a 13-year-old 30 years ago?
If director Roman Polanski were a priest and had raped a 13-year-old, there would be universal condemnation and disdain across America.
But as Father Tom Reese of Georgetown University points out, no one seems too outraged that Polanski, who won an Academy Award in 2003, fled the United States in 1978 before his sentencing on charges of giving drugs and alcohol to a minor and having unlawful sex. He faced a 50-year sentence and was arrested on Saturday after three decades on the run.
The victim, Samantha Geimer of Hawaii, says she does not want to prosecute, which to me makes it different from the Catholic sexual abuse cases, in which many victims sought justice decades later. Still, I do see the double standard. What do you think?
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