ATLANTA -- Spencer's gift shops have long been known as the place to buy gag gifts and raunchy novelties.

But walk through most any Spencer’s shop these days and you will find shelf after shelf of risqué, sexually explicit items.

Products that would offend some adults.

But here's the problem---it's not just the adults looking at them. Its kids, lots and lots of kids.

"I would feel awful knowing they could go into a store like this, look at this stuff and potentially buy it,” said Katie Ross.

WSB-TV Channel 2’s undercover cameras found a disturbing mix of children and adult material at Spencer's stores across the metro Atlanta area.

And all of it within reach of little hands.

In one store the camera caught a little girl grabbing a piggy bank in the shape of a male body part.

An adult finally realized what she was holding and took it away.

At another store a group of girls, young teens, were flipping through explicit books with sketches of sexual positions.

While there is a sign advising "Adult Oriented Products” store employees pay little attention to the fact that kids are looking at the products.

And some of those products are what you'd expect at a sex shop on outskirts of town not in a store at the mall.

"I think it's outrageous. It's just sad; sad and bad," said Sadie Fields of the Georgia Christian Alliance.

Fields recently shopped at Spencer’s for a lava lamp for her grandson. She says she's glad he wasn't with her.

"You get kids in for the gag things and then wow, look what else is here,” she said. "It’s just objectionable the store is carrying items that are certainly not suitable for children to either see or perhaps purchase.”

There's nothing illegal about displaying sexually explicit material to children, but some say Spencer’s or mall management, should at the very least, put restrictions in place to prevent kids from being exposed to the stuff.

The storefront window of Spencer’s has a small sign near the floor with an advisory. But nowhere inside did WSB-TV Channel 2 see a sign to restrict young people from buying adult material.

At Spencer’s in Cleveland, cameras caught a young boy purchasing a lollipop in the shape of a male body part.

"To have a store that is selling this kind of material, in a place where Santa comes at Christmas time, and where families flock to be just not right,” said an outraged Fields.

Last week, police in Layton, Utah, outside Salt Lake City, raided a Spencer’s gift shop and seized hundreds of sexually explicit items as part of a criminal investigation.

Spencer’s officials told WSB-TV Channel 2 that “Spencer's informs its guests, before entering that a small portion of adult-themed merchandise is on display in the rear of the store.”