I got home a while ago from a dinner party. Eight liberals there, two conservatives. Without dissension, it was agreed in a five minute conversational reference to the case that given the account of what happened at the time [i'd earlier read the transcript below of the girl's description], Polanski should be in prison for whatever the number of years the law calls for in cases of drugging and forcibly raping and sodomizing a child.
I think such a sentence would probably be sufficiently long to constitute a life sentence for him.
This, below, is from the girl's testimony. (What the woman says now is irrelevant to the rape of a 13 year old, for a number of reasons. One, a speculative scenario I haven't seen raised (except by cynical me), is the possibility that she received in the past or does regularly a 'consideration' of some sort for adopting a forgiving attitude ... a gift... a compensatory gesture...an expression of regret... a token of esteem ... How surprising would it be if Polanski or some pal of his hadn't thought of doing such a thing, in anticipation of his current situation?)
The questioning below begins after he gave her the champagne.
Q: Did you take a quaalude?
A: I took part of it.
Q: Where did you get this part?
A: [Polanski] gave it to me.
[...]
Q: After he kissed you did he say anything?
A: No.
Q: Did you say anything?
A: No, besides I was just going, "No. Come on, let's go home."
Q: What was said after you indicated that you wanted to go home when you were sitting on the couch?
A: He said "I'll take you home soon."
Q: Then what happened?
A: Then he went down and he started performing cuddliness.
Q: What does that mean?
A: It means he went down on me or he placed his mouth on my vagina.
[...]
Q: What happened after that?
A: He started to have intercourse with me.
Q: What do you mean by intercourse?
A: He placed his penis in my vagina.
Q: What did you say, if anything, before he did that?
A: I was mostly just on and off saying, "No, stop." But I wasn't fighting really because I, you know, there was no one else there and I had no place to go.
Q: What did he say, if anything?
A: He didn't answer me when I said, "No."
[...]
A: I think he said something like right after I said I was not on the pill, right before he said, "Oh, I won't come inside of you then." And I just went--and he goes--and then he put me--wait. Then he lifted my legs up farther and he went in through my anus.
Q: When you say he went in your anus, what do you mean by that?
A: He put his penis in my butt.
Q: Did he say anything at that time?
A: No.
Q: Did you resist at that time?
A: A little bit, but not really because--(pause.)
Q: Because what?
A: Because I was afraid of him.
[...]
Q: Do you know what a climax is?
A: Yes.
Q: Do you know whether he had a climax?
A: Yes.
Q: And how do you know that?
A: Because I could kind of feel it and it was in my underwear. It was in my underwear. It was on my butt and stuff.
Q: When you say that, you believe that he climaxed in your anus?
A: Yes
Whoopi refers to what Polanski did as "having sex with somebody." She never mentions the passivity and objections of the "somebody," a child, or the champagne and quaaludes, the oral sex, vaginal and anal penetration. Ick, Whoopi is disgusting. |
