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Video games: Your child's link to porn

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Stephen Odhiambo, a deputy headteacher of a leading private primary school conducts simple research every year and the results always turn up the same.

“In the research, I always find a good number of the students have played Grand Theft Auto V so I call parents for a meeting to show them some of the explicit material because most are unaware and think ‘it’s just a driving game’. The most outrageous, is that part of the plot actually require players to ‘engage in sexual acts’ to ‘regain their health’ after an altercation with ‘police’.”

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