Fury in church as pornography appears on big screen while schoolchildren sing | United Kingdom | News

Young children were exposed to pornography during a church service in the East Riding of Yorkshire in an episode that shocked parents and forced council bosses to intervene.

As six- and seven-year-olds enjoyed a harvest song, pornographic images appeared on the big screen.

Teachers allegedly rushed to turn off the lewd images, projected from a laptop belonging to church volunteers.

Staff at Hornsea Community Primary School have reportedly written to parents to apologize.

The council then sent a safeguarding team to speak to the struggling children, while parents expressed their anger at the young people being exposed to “utter filth”.

An anonymous parent told The Sun: “One minute the children are singing We Plow The Fields And Scatter, the next the church is showing the pupils an utter mess.

“The six and seven year olds were shocked and didn’t know where to look.”

A letter informing parents about the episode was seen by the publication. It said: “As part of the singing, a church computer screen was used to share the lyrics of the song.

“Church volunteers used their laptops to do this and unfortunately, for a few seconds, some inappropriate content was shown on the screen. Our team intervened immediately and removed this from the screen.

“We’re not sure the children were aware of this and we haven’t spoken to them about it.”

The letter continued: “Ms Semper, our safeguarding lead, is following the matter to ensure the Church deals with it appropriately.”

Victoria Aitken, councilor for the East Riding of Yorkshire, told the channel: “The school informed families on the same day and will not be using the church until we can be sure this cannot happen again.

A senior church member said: “There is nothing to defend here. Let’s just let the process take its course.

“It’s in the hands of professionals.”