Children have been left traumatised by counterfeit Peppa Pig videos showing characters from the popular TV show being abducted, stabbed and threatened with knives and guns.
The Sun reports parents were horrified when their kids stumbled across the clips that had been uploaded alongside official videos on KidTube, a YouTube app that claims to be safe for children.
“I thought I could safely let my three-year-old watch Peppa Pig on YouTube Kids,” one horrified mother said. “But when I looked over his shoulder I saw a terrifying witch abducting George.
“The whole video was vile.”
A Sun investigation found the app was flooded with the unofficial videos, with the average child taking just three minutes to come across one. Many of the horrifying clips had been watched more than three million times.
YouTube says it has since removed the clips, saying any inappropriate content is often weeded out and removed within hours of it being uploaded.
A terrifying still from one of the vile clips.
