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Title: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: Genesis on March 05, 2010, 08:21:57 AM S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm)
A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said. The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported. Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs. He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality. The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby. An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition. The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday. The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions. The government should neuter both of them as well. Such imbeciles shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: mrlee on March 05, 2010, 10:35:19 AM The human race is fucked up. I wish in some ways things were not so versatile so i wouldnt have scum like these representing our species!
Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: BlowUpYourVideo on March 05, 2010, 06:08:07 PM I've read of stories where parents have left their kids in cars and they've died from the heat and as tragic as that is, it's probably just a (really dumb) accident on the part of the parents. Just one terrible moment of forgetting.
This, though, is just baffling. How could you go days and weeks letting a kid starve?? :no: Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: Gaymo, the Hobbit on March 06, 2010, 06:40:52 AM Where's Dexter when you need him?
Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: Halo69 on March 06, 2010, 09:14:24 AM Wheres Dexter yeah!
Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: sunday_rain on March 07, 2010, 01:17:30 PM i've heard about this. when people get "addicted" to the internet and have to go to rehab type places.
Title: Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby' Post by: DarkFairy on March 10, 2010, 06:59:25 PM Stories like this make me hate people :rant:
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