Péter Magyar slams government over child abuse scandal: “A tsunami of lies and deflection”
The head the Prime Minister’s Office “unleashed an outrageous tsunami of lies and deflection regarding the latest scandal in the child protection services” at his press conference on Wednesday, Péter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, said, referring to the head of an orphanage accused of committing crimes against children.
Gergely Gulyás‘s “deflection and lies regarding one of the most grievous series of crimes committed against children and young people in Hungary to date were quite outrageous and pathetic,” Magyar said in a statement.
In a case involving “people trafficking, sexual abuse, a monster active for 20 years, and God knows how many ruined” lives of children and young people, Gulyás “failed to answer the question or simply lied”, he said.
He insisted that Gulyás had “lied” when he said he didn’t know whether the criminal, who is now under arrest, had passed a mandatory review of whether his lifestyle was compatible with the profession, “because they admitted earlier that he had [passed it]”.
Gulyás did not provide an answer when he was asked about the circumstances and people responsible for the suspect’s appointment as the head of the children’s home, “despite countless previous complaints and reports to the police from victims, witnesses and supervisors,” Magyar said. “Neither did he explain how it was possible that such a man could spend a decade dragging vulnerable youth to luxury hotels while paying them HUF 50,000 [EUR 124].”
“He didn’t give an answer as to why this monster received several honours from Fidesz politicians, and why almost every Fidesz politician was in a photo with him smiling. He didn’t address the question whether [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán, [Interior Minister] Sándor Pintér or state secretary Attila Fülöp will shoulder the political responsibility for the terrible things done to those children,” he said.
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