Dutch paedophile party sparks outrage
There is outrage in the Netherlands after paedophiles launched a political party to push for a cut in the legal age of consent.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party wants the age dropped from 16 to 12, before having it scrapped completely, and also wants child pornography and sex with animals to be legalised, sparking a massive backlash in the liberal country.
The vast majority of the Dutch public now believe the government should step in and outlaw the group.
Full article: ITV News, 31 May 2006
Also read in today’s Radio Netherlands Press Review:
It looks as though the Netherlands is once again reinforcing its reputation for radically liberal views on sexual morals. A group of Dutch paedophiles are attempting to set up their own political party, called the NVD, in order to legalise child pornography and to lower the age of consent for sex with an adult from 16 to 12.
According to the Algemeen Dagblad, this news has aroused reactions of disgust both in the Netherlands and abroad, but it is doubtful that the group will get the 570 signatures needed to register their party, let alone win a seat in parliament.
The spokesmen for the group have received many telephone threats, says the AD, and in Italy these plans “reinforce the image of the Netherlands as a place of vice for addicts, paedophiles, rioters and porno fiends.” In a commentary, Italian television news reportedly said this was only to be expected in a country “where hard drugs and euthanasia are permitted and where people walk around naked in public.”
Well, De Telegraaf has consoling words for worried Italians. The popular mass-circulation daily calls the plans for a paedophile party “completely nonsensical and tasteless” and says, “Dutch society has enough common sense to prevent this party from every acquiring any meaningful scope.”
Source: Radio Netherlands Press Review, 31 May 2006
