Roman Polanski accused of molesting a 10-year-old in Malibu in 1975

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Roman Polanski spent the first days of this month giving some rare public statements about his flight from justice, and how he already served his time for raping a child in the 1970s and how he deserves to be free of legal jeopardy. Unfortunately for everyone, in the same 24-hour newscycle, a woman came forward and said she was sexually assaulted by Polanski when she was just 15 years old, back in 1972. The 1970s were a criminal time for Polanski, it seems, because now another victim has come forward to say that Polanski molested her when she was just 10 years old.

A California artist says Polish director and convicted child rapist Roman Polanksi molested her during a photo shoot when she was 10-years-old. Marianne Barnard told The Sun the incident occurred when she met Polanksi for a shoot near Malibu in 1975, where he arranged to take photos of Barnard in a bikini and a fur coat on a group of rocks. At first, Polanski asked the girl to take her top off, but she thought nothing of it since she was only a kid.

“But then he wanted me to take my bikini bottoms off – I started to feel very uncomfortable,” said Barnard, who also realized her mom, who had accompanied her there, had walked away.

“I don’t know where she went and I didn’t really register her leaving but she was no longer there. Then he molested me,” Barnard said. Barnard said the abuse has caused her to suffer from PTSD and claustrophobia, but she finally chose to break her silence after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke.

“I felt like I wasn’t doing the right thing by being quiet and I needed to speak out,” she said. Polanski was charged with raping 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977, and has lived in exile ever since. Barnard has now launched a petition to have Polanski kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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It would not surprise me in the least if there was a new outpouring of accusations against Polanski, especially from his “Hollywood years,” the late 1960s and ‘70s. I’m sure he abused and assaulted women in Europe as well, let’s be clear. He fled from justice and went to live in Europe… what? Forty years ago? I doubt he just “stopped” when he got to Europe. So the question is… why is Harvey Weinstein being condemned and everyone is pledging to never work with him again, and yet people are still lining up to work with Polanski? Shouldn’t the Academy kick out Polanski as well? Shouldn’t actors refuse to work with him too? Ugh.

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