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"New Victim Accuses Roman Polanski of 'Sexual Abuse'"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this remarkable new story adding another remarkable layer to the seemingly never-ending Roman Polanski sentencing saga.  Here is how the piece starts: A British actress who starred in a Roman Polanski film charged today that the director "sexually abused" her when she was 16 years old in his Paris apartment. The incident allegedly happened in 1982, four years after Polanski fled the United States to because he feared a California judge was going to send him to prison on charges he raped a 13-year-old girl. "Mr. Polanski sexually abused me in the worst possible way when I was just 16, four years after he fled the U.S. to avoid sentencing for his crime," Charlotte Lewis, now 44, told reporters. Four years later in 1986, Lewis starred in Polanski's comedy "Pirates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).