A couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/7376178/Korean-couple-let-baby-starve-to-death-while-caring-for-virtual-child.html
 

Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and his partner Choi Mi-sun, 25, fed their three-month-old baby only on visits home between 12-hour sessions at a neighbourhood internet cafe, where they were raising an avatar daughter in a Second-Life-style game called Prius online, police said.

Leaving their real daughter at their home in a suburb of Seoul to fend for herself, the pair, who were unemployed, spent hours role-playing in the virtual reality game, which allows users to choose a career and friends, granting them offspring as a reward for passing a certain level.

The pair became obsessed with nurturing their virtual daughter, called Anima, but neglected their real daughter, who was not named.

Eventually, the couple returned home after one 12-hour session in September to find the child dead and called police. The pair were arrested on Friday after an autopsy showed that the baby died from prolonged malnutrition.

"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 in Suwon, the Seoul suburb, told the Yonhap news agency.

"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."
 
 
Sad to see that some times people go to far to playing video games.

man second time today i've had to bust this out. 
 

" Korean "

This was posted a while ago.

and days ago

" This was posted earlier today. "

" and days ago "

" @natetodamax said:

" This was posted earlier today. "

This was posted earlier a couple days ago actually. "

Did 7 people really have to point out that the guy had posted this late? Next time you see someone has posted it, there's no need to reiterate it.

we should have each reposted this ourselves so this story could become the next activision/infinity ward.

this stuff is depressing. People are always disappointing

"man second time today i've had to bust this out. 
 

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" @jadeskye said:

"man second time today i've had to bust this out. 
 

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If Simon Cowell had sex with a tree trunk, this man would be their child. "

I can't believe we went from a kid dying because her parents played to much video games to what Simon Cowells tree son would look like haha.

Confirmed: Video games murder children!

Sure is a lot of honkies in here....

" @jadeskye said:

"man second time today i've had to bust this out. 
 

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If Simon Cowell had sex with a tree trunk, this man would be their child. "

" Did 7 people really have to point out that the guy had posted this late? Next time you see someone has posted it, there's no need to reiterate it. "

what is up with Koreans and being fucked up?

If they didn't want any type of responsibility they should've use birth control or condoms, instead of neglecting an infant due to their own uselessness. They should starve in prison

I blame GTA.

but what's gonna happen to poor little anima with her parents being arrested?

So yeah I think this was already posted

" man second time today i've had to bust this out. 
 

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" what is up with Koreans and being fucked up? "

That's kind of immanent in their case.

Seriously, this is way too much. Strange that in the US or Europe I had not heard of any case of people killing their babies because they were playing too much The Sims 3.

" If they didn't want any type of responsibility they should've use birth control or condoms, instead of neglecting an infant due to their own uselessness. They should starve in prison "

Those damn videogames... they're killing babies now.

Wait till SC2 hits. Infant death across the land of Korea. 

i just read that on cnn an hour ago, pretty fucked up if you ask me. Parents should be turned into compost, I am not a hippy, but it would be better for the environment if we could use stupid people like this to fertilize crops 

" this stuff is depressing. People are always disappointing "

I'm assuming that they only learned how to fuck because of Rapelay.

" Wait till SC2 hits. Infant death across the land of Korea.  "