I'm quite baffled at the protests from France (though not, quite, by the sympathy for Polanski, at least in that age-group that recalls the murder of his wife, not that that has owt to do with anything but it's hard to feel he hasn't suffered...) But the man is a bail-jumper; the Swiss had every right to arrest him.
As for Mayne, IIRC his publisher hung fire at first on whether to drop him, and if they thought he'd still sell I suspect they would keep him. Ie, I think he's unpublishable because he's unsellable, not directly because he's a paedophile. He can't go into school or do children's events for one thing, which must make him hard to market. I've no great sympathy for him, either, and again the time-lapse doesn't really signify, any more than it did with Eichmann. Certainly he should be on the register for life. It wouldn't stop me buying his books and giving them to children if I ever had, but I must confess he totally passed me by as a child and parent, the first I heard of his name was the court case.
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As for Mayne, IIRC his publisher hung fire at first on whether to drop him, and if they thought he'd still sell I suspect they would keep him. Ie, I think he's unpublishable because he's unsellable, not directly because he's a paedophile. He can't go into school or do children's events for one thing, which must make him hard to market. I've no great sympathy for him, either, and again the time-lapse doesn't really signify, any more than it did with Eichmann. Certainly he should be on the register for life. It wouldn't stop me buying his books and giving them to children if I ever had, but I must confess he totally passed me by as a child and parent, the first I heard of his name was the court case.