Yeah, I am with the last few guys. I am all about looking at the other side of the story, but this case is extremely cut and dry, as has been said in this very thread many times already, he confessed. He admitted he did it.

Sure, her parents were incredibly stupid to send her by herself to be photographed unattended by a man, but come on, we are talking about a thirteen year old girl being raped! Throw the blame on her folks to if you like, but she was thirteen and obviously was undeserving of what happened to her. Children and young teenagers being forced by a grown man to have sex with them is something I have a really hard time sympathizing with.

Even if the girl "provoked" the poor old bastard into it with her hot sexy shapeless thirteen year old body, and she was begging him to have sex with her, he was still in the wrong. There really is NO SUCH THING as consent when it comes to a thirteen year old and an adult. It is a mature adults responsibilty to protect the children around them, not take advantage of them. But in Polanski's case, he ADMITED to doing what the girl claimed he did, and in thirty plus years, has never made any claims to the contrary.