The lawmaker, Olga Kálmán, said the pardon had expunged the criminal record of the children’s home’s former deputy director and allowed him to work among children again.

“This pardon means that from now on, he has no criminal record and has not been barred from practicing his vocation. From the moment of his pardon, he can go back to working in an orphanage,” Kálmán told the AP.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, one of the sex abuse survivors, Mert Pop, wrote in a comment that Novák’s decision “deprives victims of due justice,” and that “the obscurity surrounding the pardoned offender provokes deep concern among those who have suffered, and in society at large.”

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    9 months ago

    denied that she acted improperly and rejected calls for a formal explanation of her decision.

    wtf 😂

    How can you pardon a child rapist and then just decline to give a proper reason…

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      Ask former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin considering he pardoned a guy who continually raped a 9 year old. I guess he did give the excuse that her hymen was still intact. Unsurprisingly he went to a religious school.

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      Technically, he helped cover it up. The other person went away longer and presumably did the touching. It also doesn’t say the severity of the acts, so could be rape but also could be other bad stuff.

      But yeah, pardoning someone convicted of anything related to abusing kids is not such a great look.