Reply #28: Naive?

[pipi_k]

IMO, the ONLY innocent one in all of this was the girl herself.

Polanski committed a crime.

The mom...I don't care how naive people want to think she was...is also to blame.

My mom wasn't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree...still isn't...but years ago when I was about this girl's age, a boyfriend of our next door neighbor was into photography and had asked my mom if he could take me to a park (out of state) to shoot some pictures of me on the swings, in the flower gardens, etc.

She said "no".

At that age, it never occurred to me why she would not let me go with him...as I got older I realized that her first job was to protect me, which she did.

She had also been approached a few times when we were younger by men the family did business with who asked if they could take me and my two sisters out for ice cream, etc.


As her mom, this girl should, at the very least, have INSISTED upon being there for photo shoots or whatever.

So yeah...part of the blame falls on her as well.