Originally published in The Washington Post, March 13, 1977

“In addition to the rape charges, Polanski also was booked on suspicion of sodomy, child molestation and furnishing dangerous drugs to a minor. He was released on $2,500 bond pending his arraignment March 18.”

I happen to be very familiar with Roman Polanski’s story; you may recall hearing about the brutal murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the infamous Manson gang in 1969. Anyhow, I came across the above clip from an article that I found online. The part that I absolutely cannot believe is that for all those charges, and especially the types of charges, he was released on a $2,500.00 bond, are you fucking kidding me??????

Quite frankly, if it had been my daughter that he raped, drugged and sodomized I would be OUTRAGED that he was released on such a small bond, especially in that we all know that he is from another country {France; Poland}. What might happen? What did happen? Oh, you mean the complete fucking obvious, he ran back to his country where he gets to live the same old good life while the poor little american girl must live with this for the rest of her life. Naysayers don’t even bother, you don’t just “get over it”. I read in the same artice that France “might decide to press charges”. I nearly choked to death on what I was drinking, he did those things to an American girl and he is from France, need I say more?

Christina Lyons

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