I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

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Filmmake Roman Blansky is one in the US in a case involving sex with a minor, which has haunted

him for almost 40 years. Blansky's lawyer said he has paid dearly for what he has done,

and has been unable to make movies in Hollywood ever since. This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

The filmmaker pleaded guilty in 1977 to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old

girl during a photo shoot in Los Angeles. He served just 42 days in prison before leaving the US,

fearing the judge would have him in prison for longer. He lives in France and has a home in Switzerland.

The US has tried to bring Blansky back to court, but so far there's a tent to fail.

A child rapist has walked free, but why? He was within our grasp and he escaped. Now this

were an ordinary child rapist that had already pled to illegal sex with a 13-year-old child.

That's statutory rape. Period. No two ways about it. He'd be under the jail, but because he is

famed director Roman Blansky, he's living in a mansion in, I guess, Switzerland. I Nancy Grace,

this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Roman Blansky, convicted child rapist,

wants to come back to the US after living the high life 40 years on the land. But he is

insisting the only way he'll come back to the US is if a judge says he has already done enough

jail time. What about 40 days behind bars while he was getting a mental evaluation? What 40 days

for raping a 13-year-old child? That child now a woman has never deviated from her story about

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