Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween Costumes for Kids Spark Outrage: 'Sick'

The latest controversy surrounding Netflix's drama about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has seen parents preparing to dress their children as the notorious murderer for Halloween.

Social media users reacted in horror to posts from parents showing off their children dressed as the deceased serial killer, modeling them after actor Evan Peters' portrayal in the limited series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Parents showed their children sporting the killer's trademark floppy blonde hair and square steel glasses.

Some were dressed in a replica of his orange prison jumpsuit worn to his court trial.

While other parents took it to the next level by including fake body parts in buckets, a camera and a sandwich made with meat from his victims' bodies, which he tried to offer to his neighbor.

Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in a spree of torture, dismemberment, sexual assault and even cannibalism from 1978-1991.

His victims were mainly people of color and he was known for storing their body parts in his fridge, disposing of them by flushing their body parts down the toilet and even storing their bodies in huge vats in his apartment.

The killer also photographed many of his victims throughout the course of his assault.

Many Twitter users slammed the costume choice as "sick s**t" and "insensitive" to the families of his victims.

"If you or your child are dressing up as Jeffrey Dahmer for Halloween, please reevaluate your choices because that is absolutely disgusting. He is a REAL monster who took 17 lives. How would you feel if people were dressing up as your family member's murderer? Seriously," wrote one Twitter user.

Another added: "WAY too many people in this thread saying "let kids be kids!" You can't tell me an 8yo decided to be Jeffrey Dahmer for Halloween. The parents took the kids' Spiderman costumes and handed them feet in a bucket. It's the parents using their kids to be edgy, and it's gross."

And a third wrote: "!If you have plans to dress as Dahmer this Halloween, please reconsider 🙏🏻The guy rxped, tortured, murdered, dismembered, and ATE his victims. Some of which were children and this was a REAL person. Not some dude from an 80s slasher... Just gross."

Even rapper Ice-T weighed in on the issue.

"I wouldn't be surprised if someone dressed up as DAHMER this Halloween..... And got their ass beat. Just sayin," he wrote on Twitter.

The controversial costume choices come after online retailer eBay banned the sale of Jeffrey Dahmer costumes from its site.

eBay confirmed to Newsweek it had removed the costumes for going against its "Violence and Violent Criminals" policy which prevented "listings that promote or glorify violence or violent acts, or are associated with individuals who are notorious for committing violent acts."

Many of the victims' families spoke out about the trend of dressing up as Dahmer.

One expert told Newsweek the trend was in "poor taste."

"There are some things that are off limits, and I would think that that would be one of them," said Mia Moody-Ramirez, professor and chair of Baylor University's Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media.

This is the latest in a string of controversies surrounding the Netflix series, which broke viewing records for the global streamer.

His victims' families say the attention has retraumatized them, while experts argued it could lead to a desensitization of Dahmer's violence.

Netflix was also forced to remove the show's LGBTQ label.

Police came under scrutiny and were accused of not properly investigating the victims' deaths due to the bias against homosexuality at the time.