3 month year old starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game

[Andii]

This is why you should all take a break from playing habbo !!! I think this is a disgrace tbh a 3 month year old

South Korean police have arrested a couple for starving their three-month-old daughter to death while they devoted hours to playing a computer game that involved raising a virtual character of a young girl.
The 41-year-old man and 25-year-old woman, who met through a chat website, reportedly left their infant unattended while they went to internet cafes. They only occasionally dropped by to feed her powdered milk.
"I am sorry for what I did and hope that my daughter does not suffer any more in heaven," the husband is quoted as saying on the asiaone website.
According to the Yonhap news agency, South Korean police said the couple had become obsessed with raising a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online. The game, similar to Second Life, allows players to create another existence for themselves in a virtual world, including getting a job, interacting with other users and earning an extra avatar to nurture once they reach a certain level.
"The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life because they didn't have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby," Chung Jin-Won, a police officer, told Yonhap. "They indulged themselves in the online game of raising a virtual character so as to escape from reality, which led to the death of their real baby."
Last September after a 12-hour gaming-session the couple came home in the morning to find their daughter dead. The baby's malnourished body aroused police suspicions of neglect that were was confirmed after an autopsy.
The couple fled to the wife's parents' house in Yangju, Gyeonggi province, but were picked up on Monday. The case has shocked South Korea and once again highlighted obsessive behaviour related to the internet.
A 22-year-old Korean man was charged last month with murdering his mother because she nagged him for spending too much time playing games. After killing her the man went to a nearby internet cafe and continued with his game, said officials. In 2005 a young man collapsed in an internet cafe in the city of Taegu after playing the game StarCraft almost continuously for 50 hours. He went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital.
Lee Joung-sun, an MP from the ruling Grand National party, last month submitted a bill restricting the hours offered to online gamers. Several bills are pending in the national assembly suggesting restrictions on teenagers' use of internet cafes and games.
Research published last month in the UK showed evidence of a link between excessive internet use and depression. Leeds University researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small proportion of internet users were classed as internet addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users.

[Recursion]

News from 2010, classy.

[sorrydude$]

This is where parents are to pull kids off habbo and tell them to get a job, so they learn responsibilities.
Kids these days are gonna fail America, its gonna kill America, and yes i mean America specifically. UK people know how to act, there parents do the right thing.
Its the parents fault to the fullest. My opinions are so strong about this, and "hate" it so much, Cant even explain it.

[GirlNextDoor15]

Stupid ****. People are getting more ****ed up these days.

Kids these days are gonna fail America, its gonna kill America, and yes i mean America specifically. UK people know how to act.

What does this have to do with America? I know such cases happen in America too but this particular one was in South Korea?

[sorrydude$]

It's the american parents.
I see most of the worlds parents other than the ones in america know how to raise a child, at least wayy better than american ones.

[GirlNextDoor15]

I don't agree with you. It happens everywhere. And talking about raising their child, there are a lot of ways. In this case, I don't think they purposely starved their child. They just kind of forgot their child once they started playing online games.

[sorrydude$]

Of course it happens everywhere, But what I'm saying is Majorly the US, where parents are failing nowadays with their children.
We all can see the difference from US, UK, CA, & AU, Users.
It's majorly the US, from where we see "noobs" "babys" and "RPG"

[GirlNextDoor15]

Of course it happens everywhere, But what I'm saying is Majorly the US, where parents are failing nowadays with their children.
We all can see the difference from US, UK, CA, & AU, Users.
It's majorly the US, from where we see "noobs" "babys" and "RPG"

There are so many different countries in this world. Why would you want to compare with those 4 countries mentioned? I don't think you should compare it. If it's compared, then the worst countries will definitely be The Third World's countries? Well, should be about raising their children and not playing online games. Online games are not popular in those countries.

[sorrydude$]

Its just an example.. and they are because those 4 countries are 4 of the main Countries for Habbo.
Yet, i am talking about Habbo here, people on habbo.
Sure, lets put every country into this comparison, and it'll still come out as the same result i just made with the 4.

[GirlNextDoor15]

Its just an example.. and they are because those 4 countries are 4 of the main Countries for Habbo.
Yet, i am talking about Habbo here, people on habbo.
Sure, lets put every country into this comparison, and it'll still come out as the same result i just made with the 4.

Every country into this comparison and the same result you've made with the 4?! Tell me that you're joking pls.