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February / March Gaming Casualties

I know I just finished a bit about a baby being left to die by its parents but another quick internet search brought up the following:A man by the name of “Oh”   killed his mother after she “nagged him”. What she nagged him about is not mentioned but he spent the hours after her death […]

Real Baby dies while Virtual Baby Flourishes

41 year old man and a 25 year old woman from South Korea were arrested for letting their month year old premature daughter die while they raised a virtual one online.  According to the Guardian.uk, the couple had “lost the will to live” after giving birth to their premature daughter and sought solace online in […]

Gamers Try to Save Life

This is from Gaming Today.
Virgina Tech student Daniel Kim committed suicide last month. A single gunshot to the head - self inflicted. While many will remember last years horrible shootings at VT were initially thought to be inspired by video games in the case of Daniel Kim gamers are now thought to have tried […]

Games or Alcohol? Teens beat child to death…

Lamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, are allegedly beat Trujillo’s 7 year old half sister to death using ‘moves’ from the game Mortal Kombat reports PR Inside. The teens were babysitting Zoe Garcia when the incident occurred. According to Roberts he had no part in the event and that the […]

Boy kills old woman for ~$7 to play online games: An Analysis

This is fresh from digg but the link there was down so I did some searching and found this from maxconsole.net. To quote a quote:
   “Dinh The Dan [13 years old] was arrested on Sunday at his home in Nam Dinh province, 80 kilometres south of Hanoi, according to local policeman Nguyen Duy Duong.
Police say […]

Manhunt Murderer 3 years later.

In 2004 Warren Leblanc, age 17, lured his 14 year old ‘friend’ Stefan Pakeerah into a London park where he killed him using a hammer and a knife. Arrested shortly after the killing he confessed to officers. This would have been just another murder if it wasn’t for the perpetrator’s playing […]

Boy wants to higher Hitman to Off Parents…

 
To bad little Cory Rider’s hitman was a cop instead of number 47.
After his parents took away his playstation 2 because of failing grades Cory decided to take matters into his own hands reports engaget. After threatening his parents (with death) his mom setup a sting operation. She asked […]

Child Drowns, Mother Shops Online…

This is out of Lakeville Minnesota. Apparently a mother of four left her 2 year old son and eleven year old daughter in the bath unattended. Ten minutes later her daughter was dead. The details are a point of controversy.
The mother, Katherine Bodem, claims that she went left her two youngest […]

“No more computer games” leads to childs suicide.

Komsomolskaya Pravda is reporting that this past Saturday, October 6th, a ten year old Muscovite jumped to his death out of his parents 19th story flat.
Andrei Smirnov had done poorly in school and as a result his parents had denied access to the home computer system, including access to computer […]

Another Gaming Binge… Another Death

A Chinese man reportedly died today after playing games for three days at a local internet cafe. No game was mentioned in CNN’s report, nor in the original from Beijing News. China has made attempts recently to limit the online time of some of it’s citizens. One method they intend to use […]

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