Iceland’s Minister for Children called it quits Sunday after being implicated in a little statutory rape incident that resulted in a pregnancy and a kid who grew up not really being able to see his father as much as he would have liked, the AP reports on some scumbaggery in the land of ice and fire.
The twist is that the now-former minister, Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir, was 23 at the time she had a fling with a then-15 year-old boy who was a fellow member of a church youth group – making it a criminal offense even if the country’s age of consent is 15. Thórsdóttir disputes that she had any leadership role in the group and defended the fling, saying “relationships between people of that age were not at all uncommon, even if they were not desirable.” She also did not quit the government completely and will remain an MP. Her 35 year-old son was unnamed in the report.