South Korean couple starve child to death while raising virtual baby

[Narmer]

Awful human beings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm

S Korea 'web neglect' baby dies
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.

 

[Kirby]

 

[rh71]

don't even need a Ph.D in psychology for this one...

 

[sdifox]

They should be sent to DPRK.

 

[Crono]

People that let children die like this should be granted a swift death

 

[DesiPower]

People that let children die like this should be granted a swift death

This, heart breaking at so many levels

 

[Lotheron]

This, heart breaking at so many levels

Really? I would think starving them to death would be a better choice.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Really? I would think starving them to death would be a better choice.

an infants portion once a day until they die of malnutrition

 

[DesiPower]

an infants portion once a day until they die of malnutrition

lol ftw

 

[workiswretched]

They should be strapped to a DDR machine and forced to perform until they're dead.

 

[JulesMaximus]

That is depressing as hell.

Those two are human scum.

 

[DaTT]

Its the internets fault...not the parents. C'mon people.

 

[Herbot]

What's the big deal? It's not like we really need any more Asians running around, do we?

 

[MJinZ]

What's the big deal? It's not like we really need any more Asians running around, do we?

Vote for ban.

 

[ichy]

What's the big deal? It's not like we really need any more Asians running around, do we?

Were you the guy blathering on about what a moral, god-fearing person you were on another thread?

 

[darkxshade]

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.

Pics of the wife?

 

[DaTT]

Pics of the wife?

Bad teeth no doubt.

 

[waggy]

an infants portion once a day until they die of malnutrition

sounds like a good punishment to me.

 

[Herbot]

Were you the guy blathering on about what a moral, god-fearing person you were on another thread?

Asians really aren't people, are they?

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

Bad teeth no doubt.

To be PC about PIC, Japanese are the ones with bad teeth. S. Koreans are so superficial that they give trips to the plastic surgeon as graduation presents. So this woman will probably have perfect teeth.

In other news, this news is not surprising.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

 

[ShawnD1]

They should be sent to DPRK.

Hey now, don't send us your garbage. We only want strong working communist who care for babby!

Oh yeah and lol @ Korea. These are the same people who play Diablo 2 all day and night and say ama ama pk pk even though I'm clearly a barbarian.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow brutal. Obviously they should of never had kids to begin with, if they were too busy with their online game.

 

[hanoverphist]

They should be strapped to a DDR machine and forced to perform until they're dead.

think of the thighs theyd have by the end of that

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

They should be strapped to a DDR machine and forced to perform until they're dead.

thats a japanese thing. sigh. the confusion.

 

[StageLeft]

A better example of irony I am not sure I've ever been presented with.