Ailing Polanski Victim: Drop the Charges Already!

Samantha Geimer wants it all to just go away, says she's suffering at home and work

Can you blame Samantha Geimer for wanting the whole Roman Polanski thing to just go away?

The 45-year-old wife and mom, who at 13 was sexually assaulted by the filmmaker, is again pleading with the California justice system to drop the 32-year-old case against Polanski—this time for the sake of her physical and mental health.

All the media attention, first when Polanski petitioned to have the case dropped last year and again since his arrest in Switzerland last month, "has caused her to have health-related issues," attorney Lawrence Silver stated in documents filed with the state's Second District Court of Appeal.

"The pursuit has caused her performance at her job to be interfered with and has caused the understandable displeasure of her employer and the real possibility that Samantha could lose her job," Silver added.

Geimer, who lives in Hawaii, sued Polanski for emotional distress in 1988, 10 years after he fled the U.S. for Europe and never looked back, fearing a judge was planning to renege on the deal he cut with prosecutors that would keep him from serving any significant jail time.

There's no public record of Geimer ever receiving the entire sum she asked for.

Though she couldn't comment on legal specifics, she told the Awful Truth following Polanski's arrest that the press was all over her.

"I can, however, tell you that I have reporters parked outside my home, harassing my family and neighbors, and it is extremely unpleasant," Geimer said.

The once-aspiring actress who was posing for photos on that awful day in 1977 says she has also fielded interview requests from The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live.

"I have urged that this matter come to a formal legal end," she stated in her first plea for dismissal, filed in January. "I have urged that the district attorney and the court dismiss these charges."

The latest filing also encourages the L.A. Superior Court to reverse its earlier decision to not drop the case.

Polanski, meanwhile, is cooling his heels in Swiss custody while the government mulls over a formal request from the U.S. Justice Department that he be extradited to California to face the music.