Samantha Geimer, the victim in the Roman Polanski, statutory rape case from 1977, has already publicly urged the L.A. courts to dismiss the case against the filmmaker because it was putting her in the glare of the public spotlight back in January of this year.
Now it’s causing her so much unneeded attention, anguish and health problems, that she’s actually filed a document via her lawyer adjuring the California appeals court to dismiss the case. Evidently she’s also been harassed by the media and it’s causing her all kinds of mental suffering. Geimer lives in Hawaii and the six-page filing actually says she’s being “stalked” by journalists there.
“The pursuit has caused her to have health-related issues,” the document said. “The pursuit has caused her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job.”
The file which urges a Superior Court judge to rule on a previous motion to dismiss the case ends with, “Leave her alone.”
Man, could you imagine that Polanski’s saving grace angel in this turns out to be his victim? If that doesn’t say something about forgiveness, we’re not sure what does, but either way it seems unlikely that her filings will do the director much good at this point.
