Emmerdale facing Ofcom probe after furious viewers are sickened by paedophile Maya having sex with schoolboy Jacob
Viewers were sickened and complained to the regulator about the scenes
EMMERDALE is facing an Ofcom investigation after furious viewers were sickened by paedophile Maya Stepney sleeping with schoolboy Jacob Gallagher.
The scenes - which aired last night in the ITV soap - left fans feeling sickened and 21 of them complained to the regulator, The Sun Online can reveal.
An Ofcom spokeswoman told The Sun Online: "We’ve received 21 complaints about those scenes in Emmerdale, which we are assessing against our broadcasting rules, before deciding whether or not to investigate."
Viewers watched teacher Maya climb on top of Jacob, 16, and tell the schoolboy "Happy Birthday" tonight as she finally bedded her boyfriend David's son.
But tweets poured in from outraged people at home, who complained over the explicit scenes that have been teased for weeks.
One fan groaned: "Sick of the maya amd Jacob storyline.... Pedophile teacher groom him for a year until he's of age get her caught already"
One more agreed and said on Twitter: "This weird storyline gives me the creeps! Hope ends soon!"
Another added: "Emmerdale time folks jakey and Maya is annoying me #Emmerdale"
As another viewer said: "David is so stupid #emmerdale or is he blind"
The despised Emmerdale villain almost bedded Jacob last week.
There’s not been any official comment from Emmerdale about what will happen to Maya when she's eventually caught.
She's been subtly grooming her boyfriend’s teenage son for months – when she gets found out.
Fans were outraged during scenes where Maya tried to seduce Jacob on his 16th birthday.
She told him that her present for him was something that needed to be unwrapped rather than wrapped, leaving viewers cringing.
She then arranged to meet the schoolboy in the summerhouse to give him his gift but was stunned when she saw him there with his cover-girlfriend Liv Flaherty.
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