Kids left traumatised after sick YouTube clips showing Peppa Pig characters with knives and guns appear on app for children
Shocking videos found alongside official clips from the show
WARPED videos depicting characters from kids’ TV show Peppa Pig as gangsters are traumatising kids.
Furious parents found them alongside official clips on a YouTube app for youngsters.
The app has been flooded with mock animations of Peppa chasing characters with knives and guns and even setting a house on fire.
One horrified mum said: “I thought I could safely let my three-year-old watch Peppa Pig on YouTube Kids.
“But when I looked over his shoulder I saw a terrifying witch abducting George.
“The whole video was vile.”
The Sun on Sunday found it took a child aged three just minutes to find the videos, even though parental settings were set to content for pre-school kids.
We found scores of mock videos featuring Peppa Pig or other kids’ favourites.
Many have been watched more than three million times.
In one, a cig-smoking, knife-toting “gangster” pig threatens the fairy princess from kids’ favourite Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom.
A separate video sees Peppa flying a kite with cartoon character Masha when a terrifying clown armed with a knife swoops down, puts Masha in a cage and carries her off.
YouTube Kids was launched last year. It was supposed to protect children from the dangers of the web and let them watch safely.
Last night YouTube said they removed the clips, adding: “Any that don’t belong in the app are removed within hours.”