London, April 19 (Inditop.com) The prosecutors in filmmaker Roman Polanski’s child sex case have appealed to officials to deny his victim’s request to have the 32-year-old charges dropped.
The filmaker was pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sex with a minor following an intimate encounter with Samantha Geimer at a party in 1977, when she was just 13 years old.
Polanski fled the US before he could be handed his sentence, and was detained by Swiss police last year. He has since been placed under house arrest in Switzerland after losing his battle to avoid extradition in January this year, reports contactmusic.com.
Last October, Geimer launched a legal bid to have the charges dropped, insisting the media furore following Polanski’s arrest in September last year has disrupted her job and affected her health.
However, the prosecutors are determined the case will continue, despite Geimer’s pleas to have it dropped.
In the court papers filed, they have appealed California appeals court to dismiss Geimer’s bid to throw the case out, insisting she has “no right or authority to dictate the outcome of a criminal case”.