Habbo Hotel, a popular social network
for kids, has temporarily suspended the chat function in the online hotel.
It follows allegations that paedophiles are using the virtual hotel to groom youngsters for sex.
A two-month Channel 4 investigation revealed that explicit sex chats were common within minutes of logging on to the service.
The decision to suspend chat has greatly angered Habbos, as users of the hotel are known.
All chat on the service - which has 250 million users - has been suspended, the firm announced this development last night.
This development is very disturbing, but I think that the administrators of Habbo could probably just ban those who are making the sex chat phrases because you can see who says what.
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