Ellie Spicer said she was devastated after being called to his school four weeks ago – and now fears it was because he was goaded by the sick online character.
The character – which has appeared on WhatsApp as well as Fortnite and YouTube – issues challenges to young people to harm others or themselves.
Taking to social media, the mum of Dover, Kent, said: "Four weeks ago I was called into his school because he’d said to two children he was going to “stab them” – I was devastated and it’s been dealt with accordingly. (Bare in mind he turned five in January!).
"He’s been wetting the bed & he’s been coming into my bedroom early hours because of scary dreams!
"I am absolutely gutted, I honestly thought my children were quite sheltered. This freak scares me let alone my kids."
But she said it wasn't until she asked her two children about Momo yesterday that she realised the incident may have been linked to the sinister character.
The mum said: "He refused to tell me at first not taking his eyes off me in the mirror and was completely in denial about ever seeing this ugly c***.
"Finally when I told him the silly 'Person' who made this fake creepy looking creature was in jail with all the other bad guys and that the YouTube police are hunting down all the Momo videos and deleting them, he told me he’d seen it loads of times!"
She added: "I’m not sure if this influenced (his) behaviour at school, his bed wetting and his bad dreams but nearly two weeks of certain apps being uninstalled on their tablets, extreme parental controls activated and YouTube totally banned because of Momo NOT them, he's had more good days at school than bad, hasn’t woke once complaining of a bad dream & has been dry for almost a week."
Momo – The killer suicide game
Momo is a disturbing 'suicide' game that has spread through social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook.
The sick game Momo begins with an avatar – a haunting image of a woman with bulging eyes and long hair.
She sends violent images victims and then threatens the player if they refuse to follow the game's orders.
A 12-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy are said to have killed themselves after playing the Momo game on WhatsApp in Colombia last year.
The Momo image itself was originally a sculpture created by a Japanese special effects company called Link Factory and displayed in a Tokyo fetish museum in 2016
She said she had put a funny filter on the character's face to try to combat her children's fear of it – adding: "Please tell your kids it's pretend. Even if you think they haven't ever seen this ugly b****** the likelihood is they probably have."
Now UK schools up and down the country are warning parents to be on their guard as kids receive sick challenges to self-harm or death threats by the online character.
Today, mum and Loose Women panellist Stacey demanded more be done over the Momo 'suicide challenge' game on social media in which players are threatened to follow 'orders' from the scary-looking avatar.
Taking to Twitter, she wrote: "Okay what the *** is Momo and why have I had to see this horrific thing about 22 times in a week. I’m being warned it’s on @YouTube KIDS and @FortniteGame is it? And if it is SORT IT OUT…"
A YouTube spokesman said: "YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit content that's intended to encourage dangerous activities that have an inherent risk of physical harm or death. We remove flagged videos that violate our policies."
Instagram says it has now deleted three accounts involved in promoting Momo.
An Instagram spokespman said: "Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the people who use Instagram. Content or accounts that encourage others to harm themselves are not allowed and we will remove them as soon as we are made aware.
"We encourage anyone who comes across anything like this to report it and we have a team working 24/7 who prioritise reports related to self-harm."
If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123
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