Un ragazzo ha ucciso una cucciolata di cuccioli dopo che un compagno di scuola gli aveva mostrato un tutorial sui social media su come farlo

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A boy killed a litter of puppies after a friend showed him videos of animal cruelty on social media at school, MPs were told yesterday.

The child endured ‘severe nightmares’ in the days following the attack at home after being shown the clip on a smartphone, according to an online safety campaigner.

Health Professionals for Safer Screens founder Dr Rebecca Foljambe warned of a rise in pupils watching online videos of violence against other children and animals.

Dr Foljambe told a Parliamentary committee: ‘We had a recent case of a child who watched animal cruelty on a smartphone from a child who showed him at school and went home and killed a litter of puppies and came to us with severe nightmares.’

‘He had watched a video of how to do that on social media at school. What we see in practice is valid evidence of the harm children are coming to on these platforms. We believe this harm is increasing, day by day, week by week, year on year.’

She also blamed social media for a drop in the use of hormonal contraceptives because of false claims that the pill leads to weight gain, infertility and brain tumours.

As first reported by the Telegraph, Dr Foljambe said: ‘This is really damaging for young women. Our teenage pregnancies are back on the rise and we have the highest-ever rate of abortion in young women at the moment.’

She was one of eight experts speaking to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee as it looks into whether social media should be banned under 16s.

Frank Young, chief executive of the charity Parentkind, told MPs that one in five 16 to 18-year-olds said social media had ‘made them feel like life was not worth living’.

He added that a third were receiving sexual imagery or messages from strangers, and a similar number were receiving extremely violent or gory images regularly.

It follows a ban on social media for under-16s being rejected by MPs on Monday, after the age limit had been backed by peers following growing calls from campaigners.

Supporters of the Australian-style ban have said parents are in ‘an impossible position’ over the online harms children are being exposed to. Others, including the NSPCC, warn a ban could drive teenagers into unregulated corners of the internet.

MPs voted 307 to 173, majority 134, against the proposed change to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, brought forward by Tory former minister Lord Nash.

However, a ban could still come in future after the Commons supported a Government bid to give additional powers to the Secretary of State.

Under the amendment in lieu, Science Secretary Liz Kendall could ‘restrict or ban children of certain ages from accessing social media services and chat bots’.

She could also limit children’s VPN use, restrict access to addictive features, and change the age of digital consent in the UK, education minister Olivia Bailey told MPs.

a few things don’t add up here, I think this is just a straight up lie.

* if he was traumatised by the act, why carry it out?

* if not traumatised, why do it, just because he was shown how?

* how does a child, or under 16 year old, obtain a whole litter of puppies without alerting anyone, or being a cause for concern

* did anything happen to this evil little git?

* where did Rebecca Foljambe, the founder of the non-profit Health Professionals for Safer Screens, find this story, as I can’t seem to find any mention of this under a variety of these words

it seems like this is just a lie that was touted to the house of lords and that gives publications carte blanche to report on it as fact – beause someone reputable said in a place with authority.

Serial killer in the making. He needs to watched for the rest of his life.