Fidesz submits another package of laws in child protection

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The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats have submitted another package of laws for “child protection” to parliament, Fidesz’s group leader said late on Tuesday.

Fidesz submits another package

Máté Kocsis said on Facebook that stricter punishment will apply to paedophile crimes, paedophile sexual crimes will never lapse, perpetrators cannot be conditionally released from custody or placed in reintegration detention, and a certificate of good conduct can never be issued to them.

Hungarians who commit such crimes abroad will also be included in a public database of paedophiles, he said.

Child protection experts who fail to report when a child is under threat can be subjected to up to two years imprisonment, and all employees in child protection institutions will be expected to pass strict testing to reveal if they are suitable for looking after children, he added.

“There are many decent and honourable people working in the field of child protection, and the aim of the law is to filter out those that want to get close to children to satisfy their sick inclinations,” he said.

The draft will also make it simpler to report and remove all content that might violate children’s personality rights, he added.

An amendment proposal closely linked to the package will protect children from inappropriate content and give parents the means to request a type of “filtered internet” for their children, with sites blacklisted by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority getting blocked, he said.

Are real problems addressed?

Still, there is no news about whether the Orbán cabinet plans to solve the most important problems in the sector. It is underfunded, workers are paid an extremely low wage, a 14-year-old child receives HUF 5400 as pocket money, only HUF 1500 is spent on a child’s breakfast/lunch/dinner. As politician András Jámbor pointed out, a large proportion of care leavers become homeless, and prostitution is present among children. “One could go on at length about the demands of the profession that are not answered here,” he concluded.

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