14-Year Old Kills Father for Taking Keyboard Away

[Sneaklemming]

I hope he was playing farmville on facebook.

 

[dashiz94]

That is so tragic. Unless the story isn't fully reporting, that kid has some severe underlying mental issues, if he can just murder his father in cold blood and continue playing.

 

[dashiz94]

Major Edit: Just hit me he's 14. People, a person doesn't have to be a complete psycho to go out and kill. He's a teenager, going through the most stressful, confusing, and oppressive years of his life. Every think about that? That the pain of life is so much that he has isolated himself in the world of video games, and any attempt to rip him from comfort leads to blind bloody revenge? I have never met a truly happy teenager in Canada; I bet it's just as bad in Russia

This may be true, but he DID murder his father. Though it will most likely ruin the rest of his life, he SHOULD be prosecuted for murder. And although i agree with you about stressful teenage years, does this justify a right minded fourteen year old's brutal killing of his father? And who knows, maybe deep down he wasn't right minded and there was really something wrong up there.

That's the exact thing I said, though. He wasn't right minded. He'd isolated himself from society for a full week, disconnected from human emotion, proofed enough by the bloody murder of his Father. But when I hear him being accused of being broken in the mind, it sounds like you're all saying that he had a brain malfunction that naturally came into effect, that society and video games (or any other isolated activity!) had nothing to do with him losing the ability to love and forgive. Maybe it was his interaction with video games over interaction with humans that lead him to be this way?
Prosecution and social oppression are the reasons teenagers get like this. Charging them like a serial killer will do no one no good. Especially since the other victim is the mother, who would want the last thing to be her son in jail for a long time. "Punishment", in my opinion, should be to replace his father in some way. Get a job, take responsibility for some of the house work.Putting him in jail would just make the woman suffer more.

Being a law student I'm kinda looking at it through the eyes of the court. I do see what you mean about the lack of human interaction. But, I do believe that at least some jail time should be necessary in this case considering the crime was so horrendous. On top of that there definitely needs to be some sort of reformation (for lack of a better term)of the child.
One issue I see in the future (not knowing how the Russian Judicial system operated) is this tragedy will be on some sort of record and employers will have a hard time employing him. Lots of things are considered.

I can see your reasoning. My view is always to ask "is this the only way? Can it be done differently?".The stance I'm trying to take is that the justice court system is wrong in the way it tries to do things.The way I'm stating it, is the court is based on punishing actions, than finding a solution to the problem that caused that action. Putting him in jail is a punishment to his actions, but it also adds to the problem of isolation that he suffered from the beginning.
I agree, reformation is necessary. I have no idea what the Russian system is like, so I don't know what kind of treatment he'll get in jail.
Same to the other point, his future will be hard now. A permanent stain that will go beyond any of his jail years.

I agree with most of your sentiments, but even being a stressed teenager, the ability to sit down and continue playing after killing your father is just, sociopathic. Again though, we probably don't have full insight to the kid's life so all we're doing is just speculation. For all we know he could be a very trouble teenager or just a delusional sociopath. Either way, help is in order, but I do feel some prison time would be necessary.

 

[BryceN]

Unfortunately, things like this get the wrong twist. Video games are not to blame. Bad Parenting is to blame. I seriously doubt that playing video games for so long was the first crazy thing this kid did. I mean, shouldn't parents be on top of things and think "little jimmy hasn't spoken in complete sentences for a week now. Maybe something's up"? If you let violent video games raise your kids and you take a backseat to your child's development, then you see results like violent, socially inept kids who can't communicate outside of what they learned from the games YOU let them grow up on.

On a side note, condolences to the family for the loss of their father, and i hope that the boy can receive the help he needs.

 

[jamescorck]

Throw him into jail. I don't care how old he was or if he was acting induced by something, I just don't care. These kind of cases damages the image of everyone who uses a PC all the time.

 

[Mr.Valdor]

Hope they kill him. Or at least maybe he kill himself.

 

[Deleted]

And here I thought the homewrecker needed a buff...

 

[MR.Spartacus]

under Russian law he is old enough to be charged with murder.

That's how it should be. That "kid" is

I can't find the right word how about monster? Still tragic and a bit unsettling.

 

[cartographer54]

This is just disturbing. I agree, he has many sever psychological problems

 

[michiehoward]

Whoa. What the fuck. Whoa. Totally horrible and tragic.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Why the hell does our hobby attract the psychologically unstable people?

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

"Well, Daddy, that's what you get for stealing my Keyboard"

Sadly, all I can do is facepalm and ignore it.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Stuff like this makes me sick

 

[Jumpingbean3]

This is crazy. Unfortunately, I'm sure if CNN or other parental groups get a hold of it, it will become another story of how "violent video games are ruining our kids" rather than seeing it for what it is: a kid with severe emotional and rage issues finally acts out, and in the worst way.

Or it could feature on Fox News and everyone would laugh at the ridiculous claims those people make.

 

[Jumpingbean3]

Why the hell does our hobby attract the psychologically unstable people?

The psychologically unstable are attracted to all sorts of things. Videogames are no exception.

 

[Johnny Cain]

Of course the videogames will get the blame and demonisation for this whole grizzly affair.
It's safe to say that household and that child probably had some underlying issues.

 

[Fortunefaded]

It is the parents fault for not structuring the boy's life. Gaming is like anything else really, it isn't good when over used. Everything in moderation/

too much gaming: lack of social skills, apathy, lack of completing basic tasks like completing homework, holding down a job, or even doing the dishes

too much heroin: overdosing and dieing, not od'ing but entering into robbery/theft to fund habbit

too much alcohol: dependancy issues, organ failure, death, loss of social life (possibly), loss of loved ones.

too much food: obeisity and death

It goes on. Shitstorms will always happen about gaming, bad news sells the best.

 

[serialver]

This is crazy scary. More so the fact he just went and got back to gaming.