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Polanski's Victim Recounts Trauma After Assault

(9 Jun 2017) Roman Polanski's sexual assault victim asked a judge Friday to end the 40-year-old case against the fugitive director, but there was no indication her plea would bring an end to the lengthy court saga. Samantha Geimer told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon that she wanted the case to end, either with an outright dismissal or by the judge sentencing Polanski without him being present. Polanski's repeated requests for the same rulings have been denied. She described herself as more of a victim of the criminal justice system than of Polanski. Geimer said she had been insulted over the years and hounded by the news media. She said the original judge in the case asked if she was part of a mother-daughter prostitution team and the former district attorney suggested she had been bought and paid for and others said she was a gold digger. "The trauma of the ordeal that followed was so great that, you know, the brief encounter with him that evening that was unpleasant just faded and paled," she said. "We were just trying to survive as a family and get through something we didn't understand that was going to happen." Geimer said before she addressed the court that she was terrified, but felt compelled to tell Gordon her thoughts on the case. "This is the first opportunity I've had to come to court and talk and I thought I'd take it because I thought it might be my last," she said. Geimer, 54, has long supported Polanski's efforts to end the legal saga that limits his freedom, but Friday was the first time she's appeared in court on his behalf, Polanski's attorney Harland Braun said. The Oscar-winner has been a fugitive since he fled to France in 1978 on the eve of sentencing for having unlawful sex with a minor. Prosecutors dropped charges that he drugged, raped and sodomized Geimer when she was 13 years old. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...