I did read the whole thing- although I had not, in years past. As I said, a seamy character.

But I agree with kat. From what the kid relays about her mother's responses and from her own testimony, I don't get the feeling that this was a kid who got a whole lot of guidance in her life.

It says there, by the way, that the reason that Polanski fled the US is that he began to suspect that the Judge was thinking of reneging on the deal they had struck.