Roman Polanski sex assault victim asks judge to drop case as 'act of mercy'

Roman Polanski's sex assault victim has told a judge to drop the 40-year-old case against the Oscar-winning director as an "act of mercy" to end her decades of suffering.

Samantha Geimer, 13 at the time of the attack, has long publicly supported the demise of the saga, but it is the first time she made the plea to a judge.