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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 6351451" data-attributes="member: 46713">Alright. I believe you may have better information about the case than I do.From what I've heard and read about it, I don't actually doubt that he had sex with her. Here's two tidbits from the wikipedia article: and .Looking up the legal terms this seems to mean he engaged in sexual assault or statutory rape - but it's not actually what I as a layman would consider rape.Imho, what Roman Polanski is mainly guilty of is bad judgement. It's basically exactly what his 'victim' has been saying:  and He may not have been aware of Californian law and he may not have been aware of her exact age, but he must have been aware that she was very young. That should have stopped him if he'd had better judgement.Anyway, I don't actually know the guy personally and I'm pretty much out of my depth regarding the topic. What I'm still certain of is that I like (almost all of) his movies. I also like many of Woody Allen's movies (particularly older ones), btw. I had not been aware he'd been accused of child abuse. I hope it's not true. It does leave a bitter taste...</blockquote>