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Politician Admits to Welcoming Baby With a Teenage Boy Decades Ago Prompting Resignation

Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, Iceland's former Minister of Children Affairs. (Credit: althingi.is)

The Minister of Children Affairs in Iceland has resigned following the revelation that when she was 22-years-old, she became pregnant with a 15-year-old boy's baby.

Now 58, Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir disclosed that she began a relationship with the baby's father when he attended a church group where she was a counselor. In Iceland, at the time, 14 was the age of consent, which meant the relationship would have been legal, if Thórsdóttir were not his counselor.

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