The police, the court system, health care and even the education system may betray those abused women who, when seeking help, turn to institutions that were meant to offer protection - this was the main subject of the discussion on Monday night, broadcasted on Facebook , organized by Patent…
Alissa Milano’s 2017 #MeToo tweet caused a huge uproar worldwide. Thousands answered Milano’s post with the hashtag Metoo almost instantly, and these numbers increased rapidly as the days passed. Few are aware that the #MeToo movement was originally started by Tarana Burke ten years earlier, in…
Pedophilia and sex tourism are grave crimes of child abuse, which affect millions of children every year. Sex tourism is a global industry bringing billions of dollars, wherein children from Brazil, Cambodia, Thailand, Colombia and Kenya are prey to well-situated Wester customers. We would like to…
Today, when I am destroyed by the shock seeing the intolerance in our world…Today, when being hateful, exclusionary, and ignorant and not understanding one another is almost praised and being different or weak is punished. Today, when every other week I get disappointed in the world’s rightfulness,…
During the October 22nd meeting of the town council in the Southern Hungarian town of Szarvas, mayor Mihály Babák praised local teachers and mentioned two of his former teachers who practiced corporal punishment, adding: “I think this is necessary for raising a child.”
The mayor is already…
It first came to light in 2014 that in the 1980s a teacher had exploited the trust of the children admiring him and sexually abused them at his apartment after school, in the summer camps he led, and later at his workplace, when he created children’s television programs. The victims started to speak…
The infamous case started in 2013, when Erika Renner was attacked in her home by her ex-boyfriend Krisztián Bene, that-time director of the Hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers in Budapest, who poured lye on the woman’s genitals. Bene was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Renner sued him for a…
A teacher working in a kindergarten operated by the district took pornographic pictures of children for years. On April 29th, 2020 the police made an announcement that she had been working in liaison with her boyfriend. The investigators have found evidence that she also made pictures at her…
A 34-year-old man was sentenced for one year and ten months in prison for having sex with a minor with her consent, but the sentence has been suspended for three years, the Somogy County Prosecutor’s Office told Hungarian news agency MTI.
Apparently, the man was familiar with the 13-year-old girl’s…