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Polanski Sex Victim 'So Over It'

Girl he drugged and raped, now 45, would like to see fugitive's case resolved

By Elizabeth Wolff, Newser User

Posted May 8, 2008 10:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – Fugitive director Roman Polanski would be a free man in the US if it were up to the woman he drugged and had sex with when she was 13 years old. "He took advantage of me," Samantha Geimer, now 45 and mother of three told the Daily News. "But I'm so over it. Worse things are happening to people right now."

Geimer, who reached a civil settlement with Polanski years ago, was attending the New York screening of Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary of the 1997 scandal. She still feels "surgically joined to him by this case. I would like to see it resolved."

Documentary subject Samantha Geimer,right, and her mother Susan Gailey arrive at the premiere of the HBO Documentary "Roman Polanski (AP Photo)

Documentary subject Samantha Geimer arrives at the premiere of the HBO Documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired." (AP Photo)

French director Roman Polanski arrives at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, in this, May 20, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)

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