Polandian writes about Poland's plans to legalize chemical castration [1] for those who commit sexual crimes against minors – and about the arrest of Roman Polanski in Switzerland [2] and the Polish foreign minister's intention to ask the U.S. president to pardon the film director: “Now, if the 1977 charge had been for shoplifting, one might just about argue that Poland has the right to go asking for a pardon for this famous son, however, the charge was for the rape of a 13 year old girl when Polanski was 44.”
Poland: Sexual Crimes and Roman Polanski
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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