heather
2008-06-09 13:29:05
It sounds to me like Polanski considered the girl to be a prostitute, delivered to him for his own use. Which, I guess, she was, the pimp being her mother.
Back in the 1400s, Edmund Tudor, a noble in his 50s, married and impregnated Margaret Beaufort, a 12 year old heiress. The child, born posthumously, became the first Tudor king, Henry VII. Margaret did not marry again, and given her wealth, this was unusual for the times. She spent the rest of her life in religious pursuits (probably as protection against further rape), and she is buried at Westminster Abbey.
Roman Polanski is not a nice man, and people who support his use of that girl are not nice people.
