Thanks, Ebbie. Like you, I know whomever may have tried that with one of my daughters would have been lucky to escape with their life, let alone their nuts!

Fred, there was no sentence. I agree, he should have stayed and "faced the music."

I guess what I am trying to say is it has been a long time, the girl obviously does not care what happens to him anymore, and everyone has moved on, so why keep beating on the subject?

When my girls were that age, we lived in a ritzy area with its share of celeb hideouts, right nex door, almost, to one fo the highest crime rated areas in the state. There were all kinds of things they could have gotten into. You can damn well bet I knew where they were and with whom at all times and they did NOT do drugs nor find any in my home when they were just young'uns.

As I said, whatever the girl says or what her mother did or did not do, does not excuse what Polanski did. I think, though, that if they all can move on, the rest of us ought to be able to, also.

Of course, if it comes out that he has continued such activities, then I'd be all for throwing the book at him. I repeat, though, that I still do NOT think the dire punishments called for in this thread are warranted.

Just curious...in today's paper there is an article about a girl who ran away with her next door neighbour when she was 12 as she was pregnant by him. He was 19, if I remember right. They went to Mexico to his family's home. Her parents thought she was kidnapped and gone forever. She went to a US consulate the other day and said she was a missing person and, at 15, she has two children. She is now back home with her family, from what I can gather.

What do you all think should be done with the neighbour?

Sorry, Rick...I love Michaal Moore, too!!