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I certainly wouldn't mind much if he had served 2 years or 5 years back then, but I can't get myself worked up about it now. Reasons:
- there are far more people around us who have done acts like that or worse, who we chat with or smile to if not daily, then more often than we'd like to think about (as we don't know everything about their private lives). So many bad things happen in the world, that if everyone who ever did something bad was in prison for many years, then I don't know what would happen with the US (seeing as it is already one of the nations in the world with the highest rate of incarceration per capita)
- technically: there seems to have been fishy dealings within the court that took care of the case in California, originally. As someone wrote in a comments section today: "According to the statement from the Swiss FDJP, the reason they denied the request was that the US wouldn't hand over records from the original case. If those records said the guy was being let off with time served, they wouldn't turn him over. If those records proved he still had to return to the US and face the courts again, they would extradite... See more. Sooo... The new question is, Why won't the US supply the records?
Don't get me wrong. I sincerely want to see justice served here. But the way Switzerland sees it, if the original judge made a deal that said he was being set free after the time he'd already served in the psych unit between arrest and trial, then he's done. A deal's a deal. I'm interested in seeing how this plays out."
- the victim does not want the case brought up again (I'm kind of libertarian on such issues)
THR: Swiss authorities say they will not extradite [RPOLA]. Jul 12, 07:52
So how much jail time has he spent when one adds in the 7 month in Switzerland? {nm} Jul 12, 07:55
Living in a luxurious villa in the Swiss Alps is not being in jail. Calling it jail isn't fooling anyone. {nm} Jul 12, 09:27
I call it restrictions on personal freedom. Don't stars usually get star treatment in prison anyway? Jul 12, 09:39
Exactly. It was hardly jail as was being said it was {nm} Jul 12, 11:21
But in the event of any future sentencing, it would count. {nm} Jul 12, 11:34
I doubt he will ever leave France again. Anybody want to buy a Swiss Chalet cheap? :) {nm} Jul 12, 08:14
Is that not a huge chalet? :-) I'm sure it'll be kept in the family, or if not, go for megabucks... {nm} Jul 12, 08:22
Drugging and raping a child is wrong, unless you are a Hollywood director. {nm} Jul 12, 08:12
I found the following comment on Facebook - an eloquent and interesting one, relevant to the concept of zeitgeist etc. Jul 12, 08:24
Fortunately, the world has outgrown the puritanical notion that drugging and ****-raping a 14 year old is somehow wrong. Jul 12, 08:31
So I guess you didn't read all the way through, then ;-) {nm} Jul 12, 08:38
As I said, it isn't wrong unless you are a famous director. {nm} Jul 12, 08:46
I mean, c'mon, it wasnt even rape-rape... {nm} Jul 12, 08:54
That's not what you said. {nm} Jul 12, 09:07
I certainly wouldn't mind much if he had served 2 years or 5 years back then, but I can't get myself worked up about it now. Reasons: Jul 12, 09:33
I never said anything about percentages :-) Jul 12, 10:09
It was actually that way until about 10 years ago. It's been this decade that america's hysteria about age & sexuality has Jul 12, 11:34
Why the hell does the nazis running this board censer words like s l u t? {nm} Jul 12, 11:37
Polanski was released the same week as DESPICABLE ME. Surely not a coincidence. {nm} Jul 12, 12:49