Anger at Hungarian bill to legalize porn involving 14-year-olds

dpa German Press Agency Published: Monday February 19, 2007

Budapest- Hungarian opposition MPs on Monday reacted
angrily to a proposed modification to the law that would allow
pornography involving children aged 14 and above to be made and
filmed for personal use.
"This will give legal defence to paedophilia and supports the
perversion," MP Ildiko Gall Pelcz of the right-of-centre Fidesz part
said in parliament. "We will oppose giving a legal defence to 'sugar
uncles'."

Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei, who recently presented the draft
proposal, said that if 14-year-olds were old enough to engage in
consensual sex, then the chance to make videos of it was also
possible.

The age of consent in Hungary is 14.

Petretei said that MPs who felt strongly opposed to the bill on
moral grounds should suggest modifications.

Campaigners for the rights of women and children were horrified by
the proposal.

"This is a statement from legislators saying that we don't mind
adults abusing children," Judit Wirth from NANE, a civil group that
campaigns against violence in the home, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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