The priest who molested A. – let’s call him Brúnó – used to organize camps for children in a bad socio-economic situation from congregations near Budapest. Thousands of children from the most vulnerable classes participated in these camps, but we do not know how many fell victim to the sexual…

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…

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…

A verdict can be expected this October in the child sexual abuse case that was unveiled in 2017 in Tápióság. The website elemi.hu tried to interview the families of the victims, but they declined, not wanting to open recently healed wounds and afraid of the perpetrator’s revenge. A friend of one of…

Victims speak up Lack of pedagogical skills, treating children like disposable commodities, daily psychological terror sometimes coupled with corporal punishment – and sexual abuse. This is what former students of the Hungarian Dance Academy have spoken about in their interviews with azonnali.hu.…