Two weeks ago, inside a local elementary school classroom, a 10-year-old girl witnessed something no child should encounter in the middle of a school day. On a school-issued iPad, she watched another student play a game called Granny — an indie horror title filled with morbid imagery and jump scares. In the game, a decaying, corpse-like grandmother stalks the player through dim hallways, beating them with a bloody baseball bat if they fail to elude her.
For a young child, it’s nightmare fuel.
In the days that followed, the girl — whose identity is being withheld — struggled to sleep. Her parents described nights spent comforting their sobbing daughter, traumatized by what she had seen “at school, during school hours, on a school iPad.” It’s not just what she saw…
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Source www.independent.com
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