FURIOUS viewers have blasted a TV show after a convicted sex attacker was asked to show how he would RAPE victims live on air.

       The unnamed man caused outrage after he was handed a mannequin during the prime time show on Ivorian TV and asked to detail his previous crimes.

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       The man was led out onto the show for the 'demonstration' on Monday Credit: Tele D'ici 4

       He was introduced by host Yves de M'Bella as a former rapist Credit: Tele D'ici

       In images and clips that have emerged online, host Yves de M'Bella, pictured in green trousers, was seen laughing and helping the predator lay the prop on the ground in front of a live studio audience.

       After the former rapist had finished his demonstration, the man was then invited to give women "advice" on how to avoid being raped.

       But within hours of the show’s broadcast, TV station Nouvelle Chaine Ivoirienne (NCI) received thousands of complaints as many horrified viewers expressed their disgust online.

       It's disgusting, unacceptable, disrespectful, especially towards women.

       Priss'K

       “Please tell me I'm dreaming,” Priss'K, an Ivorian rapper, wrote on Facebook.

       “It's disgusting, unacceptable, disrespectful, especially towards women," she wrote, adding: "Rape is so degrading and dehumanising for the victim.”

       But the show was forced to issue an apology after a petition - demanding that the show be cancelled and the presenters be punished - was signed by 30,000 people in less than 24 hours.

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       In its apology, NCI's management said it was committed “to respecting human rights and in particular those of women,” and expressing its “solidarity with women who are victims of violence and abuse of all kinds.”

       The channel said that De M'Bella had been suspended “for this serious and regrettable mistake” and promised that the offending episode of the show would not be rebroadcast.

       The blunder comes just months after NGO, which campaigns for the rights of children, women and minorities, found that in the space of two years, 416 women had been killed in the capital, Abidjan, alone.

       It also identified 2,000 cases of violence against women, including 1,290 marriages of girls aged less than 18 and 1,121 rapes.

       It followed years of research from the U.N.’s Ivory Coast mission (UNOCI), who previously told Reuters that civil war in the country – which occurred in 2002 and 2011 - had fuelled a culture of violence, where rape is rife.

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       The man was then told to show how he assaulted former victims - much to the disgust of viewers Credit: Tele D'ici 4

       The show has since apologised for the 'serious and regrettable mistake' Credit: Tele D'ici