Pornographic Pens

6 Sep 2010 - All over the world children are returning to school now the summer holidays are over. To sweeten their first day at primary school, German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens that projected erotic images of women. Children attending the Adolf Reichwein school in the northwestern city received the cones from the German Communist Party the headmaster said. Angry parents who discovered what the pens given to their children showed informed the headmaster. The party said it had bought the pens from a discount store, which had said the pens lit up at the push of a button. "The German Communist Party deeply regrets what has happened and is outraged that this kind of things, which border pornography, can be purchased in normal shops," it said. It had offered to exchange the pens for something more suitable for children.