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Title: Korean couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child
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www.telegraph.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... -caring-for-virtual-child.html
Published: Sep 13, 2011
Author: staff
Post Date: 2011-09-13 07:10:13 by Ferret Mike
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Comments: 2
An internet-obsessed Korean couple allegedly allowed their infant daughter to starve to death while they cared for their virtual child, police said on Friday. 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.
The couple had become obsessed with the online game Prius
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#1. To: All, A K A Stone (#0)
ROTFLMAO! It is amusing to see you have yet to view this article. Oh, that's right; it's about a murder of a post natal baby. They are not as politically useful to you as pre natal babies. ;-D
This is from the British tabloid - in all likelihood this is a made up story around a real truth. Premature baby dies, parents were negligent - but then it adds the virtual reality angle as a made up angle to make the story sensational. British tabloids are notorious for such made up fare.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#1)
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