Victim calls for case to be dropped
Updated on 13 January 2009
The woman who was raped by fugitive director Roman Polanski three decades ago when she was 13 lashed out at the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, saying she is being victimised again by prosecutors' focus on lurid details of what happened to her.
Samantha Geimer, 45, filed a legal declaration asking that the charge against Polanski be dismissed in the interest of saving her from further trauma as the case is publicised anew.
Now a wife and mother of three children, Ms Geimer said that the insistence by prosecutors and the court that Polanski must appear in person to seek dismissal "is a joke, a cruel joke being played on me".
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