The viral "Momo Challenge" comes back: Calls on children and adolescents to commit suicide

In mid-2018, the disturbing image of a big-eyed doll with an elongated mouth turned viral on social networks.

This is Momo Challenge, a photograph that even some unscrupulous people used in instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp to take advantage of users and thereby steal sensitive information.

Although the virtual figure is gradually disappearing, she has recently come back to life, filling a dangerous "challenge".

As reported by North American media KUTV, A new video on the Web encourages children and adolescents to commit suicide.

The most serious thing is that the sequence was infiltrate popular sites for kids like YouTube Kids.

Sara Markham Utah, USA, said his son, Tanner, had seen the video at a friend's house, after which he had started having nightmares.

The child psychologist Douglas Goldsmith, told the aforementioned media that "The children are very impressionable."

For the same reason, he added that if the video appears on sites such as YouTube, many children have already been affected.