As Roman Polanski sits in a Zurich prison readying to fight extradition to the United States, it seems like a good time to publish the official court transcript of the film director's guilty plea to having sex with an underage California girl. On August 8, 1977 Polanski appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court and copped to a felony count of unlawful sexual intercourse. As seen in the below transcript, he acknowledged being aware that the victim was 13 at the time of their March 1977 encounter in a Mulholland Drive home owned by actor Jack Nicholson. Polanski, now 77, fled the country before being sentenced, fearful that he would be imprisoned by Judge Laurence Rittenband, the jurist before whom he entered his guilty plea. At the time of Polanski's plea, a lawyer for the family of the victim wrote Rittenband and urged him to accept the deal, thereby sparing the child from testifying before a media horde and having her identity publicly disclosed. "Whatever harm has come to her as a victim would be exacerbated in the extreme if this case went to trial," wrote attorney Lawrence Silver. "This is not the place for a recovering young girl." In case you haven't read it, here is part of the official Roman Polanski Court Transcript where he plead guilty to raping a 13 year old kid. Notice he admitted he knew the child was only 13. Chilling words. This is where the court found Polanski guilty of being a Mentally Disordered Sex Offender. In other words, a child molester facing possible lock-up in a mental institution with his name included on the registered sex offender list. At this point Polanski cut out for Switzerland and he's been on the run ever since. This is the guy the French love and who are bitching about the U.S. arresting. Our own Hollywood Motion Picture Academy awarded Polanski an Oscar for the Pianist a couple of years ago.