Hungarian parents submit children to barbaric parenting

A foster parent and her husband beat their minor children with trouser straps and made them kneel on corn.

According to 24.hu, the Veszprém District Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a foster parent and her husband for endangering minors and injuring persons who are unable to defend themselves. The parents’ “parenting methods” included kneeling on corn or on the doorstep.

As we wrote before, the situation of child abuse in Hungary is shocking: there may be ten to twenty-five times as many cases of child abuse in Hungary as anticipated, more information HERE.

According to a statement issued by the county’s attorney general’s office on Friday, the children, a little girl and her brother, were placed in the summer of 2018 under the custody of a woman and her husband who worked as professional foster parents living in one of the villages around Zirc.

The couple abused the children several times; the 56-year-old man made them lay on the ground and beat them with a trouser strap or cord, but sometimes he forced the children to kneel on corn or on the doorstep for several hours.

His 48-year-old wife also abused the siblings more than once. She made them stand in a corner and punished the minors by hitting or kicking them.