FTA:

Second, Polanski was "demonized by the press" because he raped a child, and was convicted because he pled guilty. He "feared heavy sentencing" because drugging and raping a child is generally frowned upon by the legal system.

America's reaction to this matter may predetermine it's downfall as moral decay often factors into the downfall of great nations.

I like the posters' comments.

Polanski can continue his work in prison. Many great works have been created in such an environment. (Don Quixote, for example). Perhaps he can write a meditation on the consequences of child rape or a screenplay about Rosemary taking revenge on her rapist and his followers.

Is this forgiveness, or to coin a neologism, childhood "prosextortitution?"

Michael Jackson agreed to pay $15.3 million to settle child molestation charges leveled against him in 1993 by a California boy

From his home in Paris, Polanski settled a civil suit by the victim, Samantha Geimer, for an unspecified amount, and she publicly forgave him.

Errol Flynn was a defendant in three statutory rape trials.He liked the young ones. His last romance was with sixteen year old Beverly Aadland.