Couple's online gaming causes infant's death

Korean press picks up tale of tragedy when couple plays World of Warcraft to excess, infant perishes from neglect.

 

In a story out of Korea which is just now surfacing in the Western press, a couple in Incheon, South Korea, were arrested last week when their four-month-old daughter died after being left alone by the couple for hours. The mother and father reportedly had gone to a nearby Internet cafe, lost themselves in playing Blizzard's massively multiplayer online PC game World of Warcraft, and returned to their home only to find the infant dead from suffocation. "We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death," a policeman told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper. The couple reportedly told police, "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day." The infant was the couple's only child.

 

By Staff -- GameSpot

Well thank g-d barely any members on this board have kids, because if they did, the samething might happen to them, because this board is very addicting, and once you start--you can't stop.

 

Anyways, sad story. I don't think the couple should recieve criminal charges though. They were responsible, but clearly their intentions weren't to do that. Losing their only child in such a manner is enough of a loss by iteself.

Well thank g-d barely any members on this board have kids, because if they did, the samething might happen to them, because this board is very addicting, and once you start--you can't stop.

 

Anyways, sad story. I don't think the couple should recieve criminal charges though. They were responsible, but clearly their intentions weren't to do that. Losing their only child in such a manner is enough of a loss by iteself.

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Thank god you aren't a judge then.

 

 

 

Negligence is a crime whether the intention was there or not.

Damn, and I thought my brother was addicted to this game. He sits in his cave (err...room) playing up to 9 hours at a time. This is completely horrible by the parents, though.

Back when I was at AOL Time Warner I came up with an easy solution to this problem. Every 15 minutes, random users would be signed off and then when they re-dialed they got busy signals. It was brilliant.

Well thank g-d barely any members on this board have kids, because if they did, the samething might happen to them, because this board is very addicting, and once you start--you can't stop.

 

Anyways, sad story. I don't think the couple should recieve criminal charges though. They were responsible, but clearly their intentions weren't to do that. Losing their only child in such a manner is enough of a loss by iteself.

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Excuse me- what intentions were there when they thought they were only going for an hour or two? Who leaves an infant alone for a few minutes, much less a few hours??

 

I never even went to put the wash into the dryer until someone else was in the house with my kids.

 

a**holes- they deserve to lose the baby.