Spot the Difference

[steepholm]

William Mayne, noted children's author, jailed for two and half years in 2004 for child sex offences that took place some thirty years earlier. On the sex offenders register for life. An unpublishable pariah.

Roman Polanski, noted film director, still unpunished some thirty years after admitting the rape of a thirteen-year-old girl. Feted, given lifetime achievement awards by the European film establishment (ETA to say nothing of the Oscar!), and continues to make movies that receive critical acclaim - including some that involve working closely with children, such as Oliver Twist (2005).

Shurely some mistake?

Comments

[gair.livejournal.com]

Shurely some mistake?

Oh, God, I know. It's driving me crazy, perhaps particularly because I keep seeing things on the internet about how Polanski's original trial was a 'witch hunt' ('regardless of whether or not he raped the girl, justice was not served!' one person said), and this comes in a month where (1) the Guardian published a review of a stage adaptation of Lolita which confidently stated that Nabokov's novel is the tragedy of a man destroyed by the sexual machinations of a teenage girl, and (2) that Buckingham University guy keeps insisting that female undergraduates have more power than male academics and are always the initiating partners in any sexual contact between the two.