CabaBabaRave, a British performance group coming together “sensory events” for babies with raunchy cabaret numbers for their mothers, on Friday canceled all its upcoming shows in an email seen by the Daily Mail after outraged parents accused the mother-led group of sexually grooming children.

To blame “the recent trolling attack and unfair media coverage”, event organizers Gemma Daubney and Liz West told ticket holders that CabaBabaRave is a “little breather for [their] mental health.” Parents’ concerns were initially completely ignored and later dismissed as bad faith by transphobes determined to keep children away from drag queens.

The group shut down its social media profiles on Wednesday after images surfaced on social media showing scantily clad adults shaking their barely clad nethers in baby faces at CabaBabaRave events. An image showed a topless woman dressed only in pasties and a red thong hoisting a toddler into the air, while a video clip showed a man in a leather chest harness and thigh-high patent leather boots swinging from the ceiling surrounded by mothers and babies .

While the organizers promised they did not say “goodbye forever,” their website has been wiped, along with their social media — though the Wayback Machine reveals a bizarre mix of typical baby-themed playtime and heavily made-up drag performers staring at babies, similar to the Drag Queen Story Hour events that parents on both sides of polarizing the world Atlantic Ocean.

Daubney and West waited until Friday to release a statement explicitly defending the age-inappropriate spectacle, again blaming a “pretty gruesome trolling attack” for the decision to make their social media profiles private. They explained that in addition to being healthier “family friendly performances” staged for “children of all ages”, CabaBabaRave also put on more daring shows aimed at new moms who were tired of hearing “the damn wheels on the bus” and want one “great night out in London” instead of. The twerking and G-strings would go right over the babies’ heads, they suggested.

However, the old ticket page for the canceled shows describes the naughty group “cabaret, drinks and dance” experience for new moms – billed as “a little slice of afternoon delight that offers show-stopping cabaret interspersed with captivating baby-sensory moments… ending in a RAVE” if “fantastic for families.” While one infant was admitted free with the ticket, mothers could bring an older sibling at a discounted rate.

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