{"id":257592,"date":"2010-02-01T02:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91323"},"modified":"2010-02-01T02:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:46:58","slug":"johnny-depp-defends-roman-polanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257592","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp Defends Roman Polanski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Depp is the latest celebrity speaking out in defense of convicted child predator Roman Polanski. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_808924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14550\" title=\"Roman Polanski\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_808924-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1139296-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14551\" title=\"Johnny Depp\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1139296-1-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; making movies &#8212; 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 <em>The Ninth Gate<\/em> and believes there is more to the case than meets the eye.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-91323\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy 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?<\/em>\u201d Johnny said in an interview with Britain&#8217;s <em>The Independent<\/em> over the weekend. <em>\u201cRoman is not a predator. He\u2019s 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,&#8221;<\/em> the actor added.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; making movies &#8212; until he was arrested over the decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}