Reply #2: Please review the history of his case [View All]

He pled guilty, complied with a court order, and underwent 6 weeks of intensive treatment in a mental hospital. He was released and expected to be put on probation.

Instead, the DA decided to grandstand and impose a Draconian sentence. Polanski, a survivor of a concentration camp, panicked and bolted.

The victim doesn't want him in prison. The men who treated him at the mental hospital don't think he's a menace to anyone. In fact, that has been the case during his long absence.

Putting him in prison now to satisfy a grandstanding DA and a bunch of people unrelated to the case shrieking for a vengeance no one connected to it wants is grotesque.

90 days sounds about right to me.

However, there should have been a codefendant, the girl's ambitious mother who failed to protect her daughter. No reasonable parent would allow a vulnerable child to be alone with a playboy in his home for any reason.