Tech | March 05, 2010 | 7 comments

Baby Starves While Parents Tend to Virtual Child: Cops

source: http://www.newser.com/story/82544/baby-starves-while-parents-tend-to-virtual-child-cops.html

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A South Korean couple has been arrested for allegedly letting their real-life 3-month-old daughter starve to death while they cared for a virtual baby in an online game. Police say the 41-year-old father and 25-year-old mother spent 12 hours a night playing the Second Life-style online game PRIUS at an internet café. After one marathon session last September, they returned home to find their real daughter dead and called police.

The girl appeared suspiciously dehydrated, and an autopsy revealed that she had died of malnourishment. The parents have been charged with child abuse and neglect. They’ve admitted to feeding the girl rotten powdered milk and frequently spanking her.

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7 comments // Baby Starves While Parents Tend to Virtual Child: Cops

  • EdJoyProductions
  • AmericanStandard
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      AmericanStandard  

    • Whoa Whoa whoa....Why isn't anyone asking the important question of Why in the hell would you ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, leave a baby alone in the house?!?!!? There is a name for this type of behavior in the scientific community...Natural Selection. It is horrible to think of it that way as it is human life and malnourishment is a horrible way to die but that is the process in action.

    • 2 years ago
  • samoanj
  • samoanj
  • sidewayssquare
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      sidewayssquare  

    • our interweb baby is like so much cooler than our irl baby, like it dosent smell, and and it dosent cry so much and even then you can just lower the volume, this is so epic why cant we edit our irl baby??!?!

      can we load these people up into a catapult and hurl them into the sea?

    • 2 years ago
  • Eddie_Miller
  • Mariased
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