It is incredible, shocking, the treatment of Roman Polanski, the Oscar Award winning director who skipped bail on a rape sentence dating back 30 years. He drugged and raped a 13 year old back then. According to some French literati, the barbarian in this case is the US. The US is seen as prudish and puritanical, while not properly respecting Polanski's genius.
The Hollywood community has also rallied to his defense, with Whoopi Goldberg opining that he actually didn't commit "rape rape." They all think he should be freed, and it's small-minded to arrect him and put him in jail.
Well, what does Judaism think?
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