Gaming Addiction Leads to Death of 3-Month Old Korean Girl

[dochmbi]

To all the people saying that we need to restrict peoples reproductive rights: Just stop and think for a moment: How could you trust the government not to abuse this legislation? How quickly would this result in a dystopia where the state gets to decide which type of people it needs and which it doesnt?

 

[Simriel]

Parenting licences people! We should have them!

 

[Simriel]

Actually very easy to ignore.

Parents unemployed
Living with their parents
Spanking a child for crying

^ The above is why you should need a licence to breed.

THANK YOU! SOMEONE WHO AGREES!

 

[Eri]

Given that there were FOUR people who could have looked after that child, two of which seem to be non-gamers: blaming it on gaming seems a trite put-off compared to the sadism shown by the parents.

This right here was a really good point. Where the hell were the parents? Since the married couple obviously wasn't responsible enough to have their own house and stuff, and surely the parents knew this, Where were they?

 

[Zeraki]

There are simply no words to describe stupidity of these "parents"... so this image will have to suffice.

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[Delock]

No. No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
This isn't even remotely videogame addiction as the problem here. This is more of the problem of the parents being who they are. Look at the problems here:

Both parents were unemployed
The were living in the wife's parent's home
They have an age gap of more than 15 years
They went to crowded places that are known for cigarette smoke during the pregnancy.
They left their baby alone and unattended
They fed the baby rotten milk
They spanked the baby whenever it cried
They left the baby for more than 12 hours at 3 months old

All these things are without games being involved. This is not about videogames They were bad choices to be parents in the first place. These are the types of people that you make sure are never left alone with your kid, why the hell would people expect them to be different with their own? I'm sorry but the addiction story isn't going to cut it here. While you could look at a few of their mistakes as being part of it, there are too many things that suggest that they were idiots rather than addicts.

 

[The Great JT]

Jesus. That's some crazy shit, man.

 

[Patroclus]

where were the parents of the wife during all of this? you'd think they'd notice something.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I don't know wether to be sad about the baby dieing or be extremely angry at how irresponsible this couple was. Seriously, why would you even have a baby if you're not gonna take proper care of it? Put it up for adoption if you can't feed her properly and hope it finds a home with parents who will take care of it if you're not willing to look after it.

 

[manaman]

I can't truly understand how people can be so easily addicted to an action or a substance. I just don't get it. Closest I experience I have is cigarettes. I have smoked on and off again since I was 14. Even through cigarettes are said to be highly addictive I have never felt the intense pull to continue smoking, the times I have quite I did just that, quit. I quite enjoy smoking through the habit calms me, and helps me to relax, as such I mostly smoke while driving, and hardly ever smoke at home.

That was a long tangent. What I was getting at is that I cannot understand how someone could do that, people with addictions always seem weak in my mind.

 

[Nicarus]

It's one thing to play a game where you have kids (Fable, Harvest Moon, etc). It's another when you ignore your REAL kids for the virtual ones! The virtual ones can at least live for years without you checking in on them (it's called a save feature!). This is by far the worst I've heard about parenting, let alone gaming addiction!

 

[Kellerb]

... my god. they rejected their own daughter for a bunch of pixels.

 

[Blatherscythe]

That's horrible that poor child! They should be ashamed of themselves, spending all their time pleasuring themselves (by caring for their virtual baby, ironic) at these shitty cafes while their child starved to death. And where were the childs grandparents, the parents were living with them (lazy pricks). The rotten food, the uncalled for punishments? These people make me sick.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

Don't most stories like this come out of this part of the world? I feel like I hear the most about this kind of thing happening in that general area.

Yup. Korea is home to pro Starcraft amd a redicuslous obssesion with gaming. Almost as much ad the Jaoanese with thier pr0nz.
This is just sad. Hopfully they will be dealt with as any other common murderer would be.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

Just sad. Whats even worse is that somebody will use this to descrbie gamers as a whole.

 

[Koganesaga]

The "Kims" that is so stereotypical I loled. The article however is generally depressing. Granted it's probably more entertaining and easier to take care of a virtual child as you can shut it off when you get mad at it, that's no proper excuse for not taking care of your three month old child, it's people like this that give gaming a bad rep, after all how much effort could it possibly have taken for Mrs. Kim to breastfeed the baby while she played her games?

 

[katsumoto03]

I don't have the words.... that is just so incredibly tragic. I hope they get the help they need, because they seem to have a major problem.

Well, I hope the have a mental breakdown due to lack of gaming and kill themselves.

Have fun in hell assholes.

 

[dark-amon]

Whenever there's an case of death as an effect by a gameaddiction it is often an korean that is the addicted person.(No racism intended, I just speak out from experinced statistic) Is this just an impression I'm getting or is VGaddiction a more occuring problem for koreans, and if such, why so?
And these parents where likely terrible parents, with or without their addiction.