{"id":15434,"date":"2024-02-12T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/hungarys-president-resigns-amid-uproar-over-child-sex-abuse-case-pardon\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:46:45","slug":"hungarys-president-resigns-amid-uproar-over-child-sex-abuse-case-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/hungarys-president-resigns-amid-uproar-over-child-sex-abuse-case-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s president resigns amid uproar over child sex abuse case pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Hungarian President Katalin Novak has announced that she is resigning from office following mounting public criticism over her decision to pardon a man implicated in a child sexual abuse case.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cI decided to grant a pardon last April, believing that the convict did not exploit the vulnerability of the children whom he had overseen,\u201d Novak said in her speech during a national televised address on Saturday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cI made a mistake, as the pardon and the lack of reasoning were conducive to triggering doubts about the zero tolerance that applies to pedophilia,\u201d she said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the country\u2019s capital Budapest on Friday, calling for Novak to step down.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In April 2023, Novak had pardoned some two dozen people ahead of a visit by Pope Francis \u2013 among them the deputy director of a children\u2019s home who had helped the former director hide his crimes. The director was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing underaged boys between 2004 and 2016, Reuters reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The deputy director received a three-year sentence.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Novak was away on an official visit to Doha when protesters arrived at her office, according to Reuters.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Hungarian opposition parties have demanded Novak\u2019s resignation.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Novak is a close ally of Hungary\u2019s hardline nationalist prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n and was the former family minister. In 2022, she became the first woman to hold the largely ceremonial role of Hungarian president.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Saturday\u2019s address was her final one as president, less than two years after she took office.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            She apologized to victims and their families in her televised speech on Saturday, saying she had \u201cmade a mistake.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Her apology was \u201cto those whom I may have offended and to all the victims who might have felt that I did not stand up for them,\u201d Novak said, adding that she had always \u201cconsistently advocated for the protection of children and families.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian President Katalin Novak has announced that she is resigning from office following mounting public criticism over her decision to pardon a man implicated in a child sexual abuse case. \u201cI decided to grant a pardon last April, believing that the convict did not exploit the vulnerability of the children whom he had overseen,\u201d Novak <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}