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LA Times's Goldstein Excuses Child Rapist, Recalling His Personal Tragedies

newsbusters.org » 2009 » September » 28th » LA Times's Goldstein Excuses Child Rapist, Recalling His Personal Tragedies

Tagged: roman polanski, los angeles times, sexuality, journalistic issues, media bias debate, major newspapers, double standards, sex scandals, sudden respect, patrick goldstein

Roman Polanski may be an Oscar-winning brilliant film maker, but he’s also a fugitive from justice, an infamous child rapist who jumped bail and fled to France in 1978 to avoid the consequences of his 1977 rape of a 13-year-old in Los Angeles. Polanski was arrested on Saturday in Zurich on the grounds of the 31-year-old arrest warrant. It didn’t take long for the Polanski defenders to crawl out … Continue Reading »

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