Comments on: Lights Down on Hollywood http://jenniferchandler.com/uncategorized/lights-down-on-hollywood Jennifer Chandler's Esteem Rising Blog Fri, 04 May 2012 21:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jennifer http://jenniferchandler.com/uncategorized/lights-down-on-hollywood/comment-page-1#comment-560 Jennifer Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:04:29 +0000 http://jenniferchandler.com/?p=1350#comment-560 That is amazing! Thanks for sharing the information. I'm sure this must be hard for the Tate family to have Polanski's name in the spotlight again which naturally brings with it their daughter's death. Also, they fought for rape laws and victims rights and yet here is this man they know who is a rapist and clearly cares nothing about victims and justice. It is a real eye opener in so many ways, this story. Reflecting back what society does not always want to admit. We are still unable to fully see rape and especially rape of our children as something that has no excuse attached to it. Farther ahead in a lot of ways but still some way to go. I guess there will always be people who can start the sentence with "But, she...." That is amazing! Thanks for sharing the information. I’m sure this must be hard for the Tate family to have Polanski’s name in the spotlight again which naturally brings with it their daughter’s death. Also, they fought for rape laws and victims rights and yet here is this man they know who is a rapist and clearly cares nothing about victims and justice.

It is a real eye opener in so many ways, this story. Reflecting back what society does not always want to admit. We are still unable to fully see rape and especially rape of our children as something that has no excuse attached to it. Farther ahead in a lot of ways but still some way to go. I guess there will always be people who can start the sentence with “But, she….”

]]> By: Pat http://jenniferchandler.com/uncategorized/lights-down-on-hollywood/comment-page-1#comment-559 Pat Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:24:07 +0000 http://jenniferchandler.com/?p=1350#comment-559 I have a loose connection to Roman Polanski, partially from being present in California and working with California Pollice Officers Training Branch at the time of the Tate/La Bianca Murders. Roman's eight month pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered and butchered, while her husband, Rom, was in London. Doris Tate, (Sharon's Mother), never forgot what had happened to her daughter and her violent death. She turned that tragic and awful event to working for the voice of crime victims, so that they would not be ignored. I worked alongside Doris Tate, on California's Task Force on Crime Victims in the early 1980's, pushing through the Rape Shield Law, and Doris's special focus the right for crime victims to attend and speak at perpetrators parole hearings. (BOTH NOW ENACTED INTO LAW.) The Tate family is still very active in Victims rights in the State of California and has helped to make California one of the leaders in Victim's legislation and rights. I have a loose connection to Roman Polanski, partially from being present in California and working with California Pollice Officers Training Branch at the time of the Tate/La Bianca Murders.
Roman’s eight month pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered and butchered, while her husband, Rom, was in London.

Doris Tate, (Sharon’s Mother), never forgot what had happened to her daughter and her violent death. She turned that tragic and awful event to working for the voice of crime victims, so that they would not be ignored.
I worked alongside Doris Tate, on California’s Task Force on Crime Victims in the early 1980′s, pushing through the Rape Shield Law, and Doris’s special focus the right for crime victims to attend and speak at perpetrators parole hearings. (BOTH NOW ENACTED INTO LAW.)

The Tate family is still very active in Victims rights in the State of California and has helped to make California one of the leaders in Victim’s legislation and rights.

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