An unexpected discovery was made this week on what was thought to be a new Nintendo 3DS. Expecting to find only the pictures he had taken, Tom Mayhew's eight-year-old son instead found pornographic pictures saved on the new gaming system he received for Christmas, according to WAVY News 10

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"He went to play his games, not knowing anything was on it," Mayhew said. "After a while, [the kids] took pictures of themselves and when the picture was taken it went to a file. When that file was opened, there were already pictures on it."In total, there were a dozen pornographic pictures found on the system, which is incorrectly identified by the report as being a DS, when it in fact appears to be a 3DS. The system was recently purchased at a Walmart in Hampton, Virginia under the assumption that it was new. Mayhew said he believes the system may have already been purchased and then returned to the store, with those images -- which were dated as being saved in early December -- never being removed prior to it being sold again.If this story seems familiar, it could be because an extremely similar story was reported last December with a 5-year-old boy and a 3DS sold by GameStop. In that case, GameStop explained that the system had been refurbished but that, rather than being deleted, the pictures stored on it had been overlooked.Walmart has not yet offered a comment on this latest incident.

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