Samantha Geimer, the victim in the Roman Polanski, statutory rape case from 1977, is urging the L.A. courts to dismiss the case against the filmmaker because it is putting her in the glare of the public spotlight again.
Geimer, who was 13 when assaulted by the director, says she is being victimized all over again by prosecutors focusing in on the lurid details and she would like the case to be remanded in the interest of relieving her from further personal trauma.
Prosecutors insisting that Polanski show up in person before the court is “is a joke, a cruel joke being played on me,” she told the AP.
A hearing has been set for January 21, but if Polanski were to show, he could be arrested on the spot. Geimer is asking for the case to be dismissed on his behalf. “If Polanski cannot stand before the court to make this request, I, as the victim, can and I, as the victim do.”
“True as [these case facts] may be, the continued publication of those details causes harm to me, my beloved husband, my three children and my mother,” she said. “I have become a victim of the actions of the district attorney.” Geimer is now 45 and a mother of three.
Not that she’s excusing his actions (though she does sound at peace), but even Geimer says Polanski fled “because the judicial system did not work.”