The Minister of Education and Childhood of Islandia, Asthildur Loa Thorsdottir, has resigned after making public and recognizing that He had a son at 22 with a 16 -year -old teenager. The events occurred more than 30 years ago when he met the child while working in a religious group, as reported by the RUV public chain.
Although Iceland stipulates Sexual consent at 15 yearsthis age increases to 18 when it comes to relations between teachers and students or people among whom there is some type of economic relationship or employment relationship.
At first, as told by the father of the former minister and has been evident in the documents consulted by RUV, until she met her husband did facilitate the father-son meetings. In fact, although the relationship was secret, He was present at birth of your child. Although, then the contact was reduced and until it turned 18, the relationship was simply reduced by the payment of the pension.
According to Ruv, he asked the Ministry of Justice and the Church’s family service for help to see his son, but the former minister denied him the visit.
Thorsdottir has claimed that it was A youth relationship And he explained in statements to the Icelandic media that resigns so as not to hinder the work of the Government and the Ministry of Education, in particular. The case has reached the political sphere after a person contacted the Executive.
The Prime Minister of Iceland, Kristún Frostadóttir, explained that Thórsdottir had met with the three leaders of the country’s parties. “We discuss the options together and listen to their detailed explanation of the matter for the first time at that meeting. (…) It is an unfortunate matterbut it has nothing to do with our work. ”
