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CHILLING: Videos On YouTube And YouTubeKids App Found With Tips For Kids On Committing Suicide

Hank Berrien

Children watching videos on YouTube and on the YouTubeKids app may have been exposed to chilling instructions on how to commit suicide.

The first awareness of this horrifying trend was noticed by a female doctor whose son had a nosebleed. In order to distract him, she put on a cartoon on YouTube Kids, only to see roughly five minutes into the video a man walking into the picture, holding out his arm, and giving advice as to how to slit your wrist.

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