A FASHION designer has been slammed for releasing lingerie for little girls as young as EIGHT – sparking a police probe.

Odessa-based Alla Frenkel has been accused of promoting the “sexualisation of children” in pictures showing child models in lace underwear.

The photos have been branded “sickening” while Ukrainian police have confirmed the parents of the girls involved, aged between eight and 14, face prosecution.

A massive backlash was sparked after the snaps were featured on the designer’s online shop.

Frenkel says there is “nothing wrong” with the photoshoot but has not commented further on the new “premium class lingerie for children”.

Her customers were told: “Nowadays, young ladies can afford to wear elegant and attractive lingerie.

“Delicate lace, comfortable natural fabrics, exotic decorations – all these features in the new collection of lingerie for children.

“The lingerie in which your daughters will sleep like princesses.”

Frenkel, who also produces adult lingerie, is pictured with the child models who are dressed in her skimpy lace products.

The designer has a daughter the same age as some of her models, local media reports.

Following the controversy surrounding her new range, a planned October fashion show using child models may now be cancelled, according to reports.

Following a wave of protest, Larisa Zub, head of the Ukrainian police’s juvenile department, said the law will hold parents responsible for allowing their kids in the modelling sessions.

The top cop did not rule out other unspecified legal action linked to the pictures.

She said: “We will for sure charge the parents with an administrative crime in this regard – the improper performing of their parental duties.

“Such photographs may attract attention of people with mental problems.

“They may want to trace the address of the child’s family and to follow the child.”

The police have called for “experts” to give their opinions on the pictures before a final decision is taken over who is prosecuted.

Frenkel has been accused of “the sexualisation of children” in a furious online backlash.

One social media user posted: “Where are the parents? What are you doing? These are girls, not underage prostitutes.”

Another wrote: “I am not at all a member of moral police but this is just too much.”

A third said: “This is sickening. Whoever deigned this should be punished - and so should the parents of these exploited models”.

Frenkel posted a message evidently aimed at her critics reading: "Poke your nose into clever books, not into other people’s lives.”