This guy gives me a case of the icky-poo creepies. Thanks to the American justice system, Roman Polanski walks free in Switzerland after having sex with a 13 year old girl in 1977.

He has been hiding out overseas since the day before his sentencing in California. He ran after his fears that his deal for no jail time would be renege. Swiss cops then jailed Mr. Polanski in Zurich in September 2009 after an American warrant for his arrest was issued. In December he was allowed to move to his chalet in the ski resort of Gstaad under house arrest on bail of $4.5 million pending a decision on his extradition.

Now Polanski has been set free after the US failed to provide requested records:

“Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said the American authorities had rejected a request by her ministry for records of a hearing by the prosecutor in the case, Roger Gunson, in January 2010 which should have established whether the judge who tried the case in 1977 had assured Mr. Polanski that time he spent in a psychiatric unit would constitute the whole of the period of imprisonment he would serve. Reports NY Times.

“If this were the case, Roman Polanski would actually have already served his sentence and therefore both the proceedings on which the U.S. extradition request is founded and the request itself would have no foundation,” the Swiss Justice Ministry said in a statement.”