Baby Starves to Death as Parents Raise Virtual Kid

[FAPTurbo]

A Korean couple has been arrested for neglecting their three-month-old child who died from malnutrition.

The couple, labeled in some circles as game addicts, had spent 12 hours at an Internet café and returned to find their daughter had died. "They called in last September to report that they found their daughter dead after coming back home in the morning," Detective Chung Jin-Won of the Suwon Seobu Police Station said, according to ABC News. "They had spent 12 hours, all night at a PC bang."

An autopsy revealed that the little girl had died from malnutrition. When questioned by the police, the couple, known only as the Kims, confessed that they had fed the three-month-old baby rotten, powdered milk and had often spanked her when she cried.

Ironically, police say the Kims neglected their child so they could raise a virtual daughter through an online game called PRIUS. PRIUS allows players to choose a job and interact with others. Once they reach a certain level, a second avatar can be earned which they are supposed to nurture.

ABC reports that the couple met online in 2008 and throughout their marriage and birth of their baby, lived with the wife's parents. Officials said both are unemployed and spent most of their time playing Internet games at local cafes even during the wife's pregnancy.

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[ShadowDog]

Yay technology in the hands of weak minds and fantasy-dwelling underachievers!

[loki]

anyone hear about the baby girl that survived 3 (pretty sure) days after being shot by parents that killed their other 2 kids and themselves, and supposedly did this because somehow they related it to global warming?

[balthazar]

And humanity continues to unravel while technology continues 'moving forward'. Yay us !!

[Robert Hall]

The world is full of a lot of seriously f'd up people.

[loki]

The world is full of a lot of seriously f'd up people.

yes, but it's quite sad too.

[Nick]

anyone hear about the baby girl that survived 3 (pretty sure) days after being shot by parents that killed their other 2 kids and themselves, and supposedly did this because somehow they related it to global warming?

wut

[loki]

wut

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1254619/Baby-girl-survives-shot-chest-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html

what a story to tell others when you grow up.... I'm so ganster i survived a gunshot while i still an infant. it's really not funny, actually.

Edited March 6, 2010 by loki

[daves87rs]

The world is full of a lot of seriously f'd up people.

Yeah...really sad.

[ShadowDog]

anyone hear about the baby girl that survived 3 (pretty sure) days after being shot by parents that killed their other 2 kids and themselves, and supposedly did this because somehow they related it to global warming?

Wouldn't it be ironic if the girl lives to see death by global warming? That's like, twilight-zone...ish...stuff.

Stupid people, they're everywhere.

[loki]

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PRIUS, Really?! did no one else notice this? Toyota kills again! hehe.. awwww

[Nick]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1254619/Baby-girl-survives-shot-chest-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html

what a story to tell others when you grow up.... I'm so ganster i survived a gunshot while i still an infant. it's really not funny, actually.

Not at all. I thought you meant the baby lived because of global warming. After reading the story though...

[loki]

Not at all. I thought you meant the baby lived because of global warming. After reading the story though...

sorry for the confusion.

[Lamar]

PRIUS, Really?! did no one else notice this? Toyota kills again! hehe.. awwww

Beat me to it.