Fury over Hungary plan to ‘legalise paedophilia’

A BILL modifying Hungary’s penal code could allow pornographic material involving 14 to 17-year-olds to be made and kept for personal use.

The country’s justice ministry said the draft proposal, presented last month by Hungarian justice minister Jozsef Petretei, was in line with European Union norms which give member states the right to regulate the issue at national level.

But opposition politicians attacked the proposal as “legalised paedophilia” and a family welfare group described it as “the waiting room of prostitution”.