New Polanski claim dismissed

Swiss prosecutors say they won’t pursue investigating director Roman Polanski over allegations by a German woman that he raped her 45 years ago when she was 15. Prosecutors said Wednesday the statute of limitations had long since expired. The plaintiff — one of five more women recently who have accused Polanski of sexual assault — filed a criminal complaint in September alleging Polanski raped her in 1972. Polanski, 84, has been a fugitive from U.S. justice since he fled to France in 1978 after pleading guilty to assault after drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in California.