A Florida-based pediatrician who is also a mother is calling out YouTube over a series of videos aimed at kids with inappropriate content, including one offering instructions on how to commit suicide.<\/p>\n
Dr. Free Hess, who runs her own website called PediMom.com, said she first encountered the video<\/a> with a clip of the suicide instructions edited in about seven months ago from a concerned parent.<\/p>\n Hess said although the clip was removed from YouTube Kids \u2013 a version of YouTube available as an app billed as kid friendly \u2013 it had resurfaced on YouTube.<\/p>\n A clip from the video recorded by Hess appears to show cartoonish characters from “Splatoon,” a video game made by Nintendo. Hess said more than four minutes in, the video abruptly flips to a man offering advice on how to commit suicide.<\/p>\n “There has to be a better way to assure this type of content is not being seen by our children,” said Hess in a blog post published last Friday<\/a>. “We cannot continue to risk this.”<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n This mom came across the hidden video of a man offering advice on how to commit suicide, along with several other inappropriate videos.https:\/\/t.co\/NiM7bAsZ0W<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n