Johnny Depp is the latest celebrity speaking out in defense of convicted child predator Roman Polanski.
Polanski admitted to indulging in unlawful sex with a 13-year-old model he drugged in 1977. The actor fled the country before his sentencing and remained on the run — making movies — until he was arrested over the decades old statutory rape charge in Switzerland last September. He is currently fighting extradition to the US. Depp worked with the 76-year-old lensman on the 1999 film The Ninth Gate and believes there is more to the case than meets the eye.
“Why now? Obviously there is something going on somewhere. Somebody has made a deal with someone. Maybe there was a little money involved, but why now?” Johnny said in an interview with Britain’s The Independent over the weekend. “Roman is not a predator. He’s 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids, he has got a wife that he has been with for a long long time. He is not out on the street,” the actor added.
Rather the rape happened 50 years ago or just yesterday, the man violated a child. He committed a crime and he needs to answer for it. Shame on the celebs who continue to make excuses for this child molester and his stomach-turning assault on that young woman.