Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos triggers social media backlash after ‘defending’ pedophilia (VIDEO)

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Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has sparked outrage on social media after apparently “defending” pedophilia.

The British Breitbart news editor has been accused of “defending child abuse” after saying “we get hung up” on it.

“We get hung up on this sort of child abuse stuff to the point where we are heavily policing consensual adults,” said Yiannopoulos.

“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men – the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship – those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”

Yiannopoulos was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC )in Maryland. He made the comments while discussing instances of abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of a priest at school when he was in his teens.

Reacting to the comments, several conservatives have called for Yiannopoulos to be scrapped from the CPAC’s list of speakers.