Seven-Year-Old Girl Murdered for Videogame Money

[CM156_v1legacy]

*Shakes head*

Lord have mercy...

She was 7. SEVEN! How could you do that? For what, a video game?
This is perhaps one of the most saddening things I have ever seen. I think I need to play with my dog just to raise my spirits...

 

[lacktheknack]

It's very easy to blame the games. But what about the kids parents? His upbringing? His environment he lives in? Or the mental state of the kid himself?

This story would end exactly the same if he was addicted to Skittles and wanted money to buy Skittles.

No one's ever done that before with Skittles, though.

Personally, I have no qualms with limiting internet cafe usage to eight hours a day or so. How much goddamn time do you need? It might help stop some of these tragedies, as well...

But how do we know that no ones ever killed over an addiction to Skittles? Because the media has never reported it? That's because if a newspaper had two exact stories about an unfortunate murder, one they can blame on video games, one they can blame on skittles, then video games are going to be their choice every single time!

I dunno, bashing video games is nearly passe. I'd go for the Skittles murder, because THAT'D sell some papers if you headlined it right.

 

[RadiusXd]

"It's exactly like drugs or alcohol - once people get addicted, they feel they have to have it. There are always certain people who will get addicted to a drug, and in gaming we estimate it's about 20% to 30% of people," claimed Woolley.

Aside from the whole addiction means you suffer withdrawals when deprived and I have yet to see proof of that.

This is a case of a kid with no parental guidance becoming a psychopath. I'm pretty sure more people kill for food and water. So we should get on that otherwise we might have more people getting killed.

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note the convulsions, rabid howling, self-sodomization, extreme psychosis and closet-toggle-syndrome.


that is not to say of course, that this kid wouldn't have just as easily flipped over any number of equally trivial things.

 

[LiudvikasT]

Will you all just shut up. Of course games are addictive (especially MMO's, those are designed to be addictive), everything that is pleasurable is addictive. Most of you who regularly play games have some level of addiction, as do I, it simply does not interfere with our lives. But I am not surprised that this happens from time to time. It's rare, but if someone already has some mental problems it's no surprise that they react in such way.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Pardon the language, but...What the bloody Fuck have this kid's parents been doing all his life? A 15 year old murdering someone for money for internet time?

 

[BabyRaptor]

Will you all just shut up. Of course games are addictive (especially MMO's, those are designed to be addictive), everything that is pleasurable is addictive. Most of you who regularly play games have some level of addiction, as do I, it simply does not interfere with our lives. But I am not surprised that this happens from time to time. It's rare, but if someone already has some mental problems it's no surprise that they react in such way.

How about you shut up? Just because you have no self-control doesn't mean we all do. Nor are our opinions any less worthy of being voiced than yours.

 

[mrscott137]

Great, now because of some nutter who clearly has issues, watch as the anti-game train rolls into town

 

[LiudvikasT]

Will you all just shut up. Of course games are addictive (especially MMO's, those are designed to be addictive), everything that is pleasurable is addictive. Most of you who regularly play games have some level of addiction, as do I, it simply does not interfere with our lives. But I am not surprised that this happens from time to time. It's rare, but if someone already has some mental problems it's no surprise that they react in such way.

How about you shut up? Just because you have no self-control doesn't mean we all do. Nor are our opinions any less worthy of being voiced than yours.

It's just really annoying. All thread long there's posts saying - "Who's addicted? I am not addicted!".

 

[Aesir23]

Ok, this kid is in need of serious psychological help if he's willing to murder a seven year old girl simply for time at an internet cafe. God help him if the girl's parents get their hands on him.

As for the woman. As someone else said, she is letting her grief cloud her judgment and uses gaming as a scapegoat when the mental state of both this child and her own son were clearly factors in both incidents.

Yes, there are some cases where a person obviously has a problem. But then something should be done by the family because I don't think there's really anything the government can do about it, not realistically at least. Everyone is different and no matter what, there will, sadly, be incidents like this.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Meh. Government regulation of games. People will piss and moan but I'm interested to see just what effect that could have on the state. Will it fix anything or will there be a massive amount of black market connections for addicts? Just the though of a gaming den as the modern opium den has an odd ring to it.

 

[justnotcricket]

The problem here is that people are confusing the nature of the fix with the cause of the addiction.

The boy clearly has some issues that are bigger than a gaming addiction - I mean, seriously, if you absolutely have to steal a girl's earrings to get money to play an MMO - why beat her to death with a rock to do it? She was SEVEN. I'm pretty sure a 15 year old could have intimidated her into handing them over (still horrible, but at least she'd be alive). Beating someone to death with a rock for a pair of earrings is the sign of a disturbed mind to begin with. The game is incidental - he might just as easily be addicted to crack, or alcohol, or coffee for god's sake, and would still kill someone to get a fix.

I can't speak to whether games are clinically addictive, because frankly, no-one seems to be able to prove it one way or another. I do think that people should keep perspective here though - kid beat another kid to death for her earrings. A gaming addiction is not the main problem here.

 

[Merkavar]

i hate when people blame games liek that. that kid is messed in the head something fierce to even consider murder just to buy some time at an intrenet cafe.

its not the games fualt. millions of people play games 10 even 50 hours a week and we dont have these stories in the news every day do we. so its clearly not the game but a small percentage of people who probably would have killed them selves or others with or with out the game.

 

[Ursus Buckler]

Take this kid behind a shed and shoot him in the back of the head.
Like Rorschach said, 'Men get arrested. Dogs get put down.'

 

[Torrasque]

Also please keep this away from Fox and the Daily Mail. I can only imagine...

This just in! Video games are an addictive substance!
Is your child killing bears for their hearts, or is it for heroin?!

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I think this is another one of those cases where the kid has something wrong with him and his addiction to the videogame acted as a kind of trigger to this behaviour. I don't really think the videogame can actually be blamed, seeing as everyone else who plays it is fine.

 

[Dogstile]

So instead of stealing some cash, he beat someone to death.

Sounds like a well adjusted person.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Yeah, like games are the only possible explanation for this. I'd never kill another human being for food or water, much less some crappy online game :/ I feel bad for this girl, and her parents ... I hope the sick fucker gets stoned to death.