Iceland’s Minister for Children has resigned in disgrace she was accused of having sex with a 15 year-old boy when she was 22 and getting pregnant by him.
Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir said she met the troubled teen, identified as Eirík Ásmundsson by RUV, while she was working as a counsellor at a religious group he attended.
He was just 15-years-old when they began their secret relationship, the outlet reported. Thórsdóttir claims he was 16 when it became sexual.
The age of consent is 15 in Iceland, but it is illegal to have sex with anyone under the age of 18 if the adult holds a position of authority over them, as Thórsdóttir is accused of doing.
‘I understand… what it looks like,’ Thórsdóttir, now 58, said, adding that it is ‘very difficult to get the right story across in the news today’.
She gave birth to the couple’s son aged 23, while her lover was just 16.
The revelation emerged after Ásmundsson’s relative got in touch with Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir last week.
The former children’s minister was then summoned to her office on Thursday, where she confirmed the reports and immediately resigned.
‘This is very personal matter [and] out of respect for the person concerned, I will not comment on the substance,’ Frostadóttir said, adding that it was ‘very serious’.
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