Poland--Victims blast Polish authorities re Roman Polanski
For immediate release: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, 314 645 5915 home, [email protected])
We are disappointed that once again Roman Polanski is escaping justice.
http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/4679028-155/polands-top-court-upholds-refusal-to
The new ruling preventing his extradition is a travesty. Our hearts go out to anyone who was hurt by Polanski and to the tens of thousands of sexual assault victims whose perpetrators escaped justice by political clout, shrewd maneuvering or by "running out the clock" on the archaic, predator-friendly statute of limitations.
The next time someone questions a rape or child sex abuse victim for not reporting the crime, or reporting months or years later, remember Polanski and how he got off scot-free despite his heinous sex offense against a girl.
No matter what courts or government officials do or don’t do, we urge every single person who saw, suspected or suffered child sex crimes and cover ups in churches or institutions – especially by powerful figures – to protect kids by calling police, get help by calling therapists, expose wrongdoers by calling attorneys, and be comforted by calling support groups like ours. This is how kids will be safer, adults will recover, criminals will be prosecuted, cover ups will be deterred and the truth will surface.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 20,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact - David Clohessy (+1 314-566-9790 cell, [email protected]), Barbara Dorris (+1 314-503-0003 cell, [email protected]) , Barbara Blaine (+1 312-399-4747 cell, ([email protected] )
Poland’s top court upholds refusal to extradite Polanski
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA The Associated Press
Warsaw, Poland • Poland's Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S.
The ruling upholds the decision of a lower court that was challenged by the justice minister, and closes the matter in Poland.
"Game over," said Jan Olszewski, one of Polanski's lawyers. "The case is definitively closed. We won in a fair struggle. We feel satisfaction."
Polanski, 83, is wanted in the U.S. in a case involving sex . . .
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