Woman Blames FarmVille for Killing Her Baby

[McFox]

Oh god, what has society produced these days. It's people like this that tarnish the overall image of the video game culture, even disregarding my dislikement of Zynga. It's amazing what kinds of excuses people can make, especially when it comes to scapegoating video games. Video games are essentially made for entertainment purposes, not to motivate an individual to murder their infant. For the love of god, common sense seems to be less common these days...

 

[Blind Sight]

I certainly hope that Tobias' time in prison is a long and horrific experience that comes to a brutal end in the back corner of the laundry room

Okay, I get what she did was terrible. But that's a little sadistic isn't it?

....and I certainly hope that Tobias' time in prison is a long and horrific experience that comes to a brutal end in the back corner of the laundry room.

*sigh* Why does it seem everybody is so vengeful these days? Retribution brings no healing...

Hedonistic Principle my good men, Jeremy Bentham argued that the best way to prevent crime was to ensure that the pleasure of the crime was less then the pain of punishment. God, I have to stop taking criminology courses...

 

[C95J]

people like this should have a 24 hour guard watching their vaginas.

There are so many terrible parents it makes me wonder they had the baby, or didn't use a condom in the first place...

 

[PrototypeC]

OK. Um, I'm going to just lasso my brain into her world for a moment. OK, the baby was crying while she was doing something else. She decides she better shake it to shut it up. Next, she has a calming cigarette on the patio. Then, she decides that the baby is still a problem, so she shakes it again, smacking it in the head as well, in order to kill it. ...but it should only be second degree, because she had to be called away from Farmville to do the deed the first time.

Ignoring how sad and tired this makes me feel, any who are worried that the game could ever be blamed for this by the most crazed crusader need not worry this time. Although if you're worried about Farmville's reputation more than the fact that this ever happened, you've got the same problems this woman has.

 

[Squilookle]

I certainly hope that Tobias' time in prison is a long and horrific experience that comes to a brutal end in the back corner of the laundry room. Evil can always find a way to justify itself.

Certainly you have every right to be angry about what she did, but saying something like that reduces you to a mob mentality that is no better than hers.

 

[General Ken8]

That's awful, and besides the fact that it's really sad, now society has more ammunition in the war on whether or not video games make people violent.
I don't know which I'm more upset about, to be honest

 

[Iron Lightning]

When I saw the title of this article I thought that this was just a case of criminal neglect. I am simply appalled that this is actual murder, it's not even manslaughter, this woman actually intended to murder the child. The human race's capability for evil is remarkable.

 

[Janelle Bellard]

You see that look on her face? She looks mad because her crops are withering.

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

>see the picture
>try to understand
>look at her face again
>derp

seriously

This. It's completely unbelievable that something like this would happen. Then again, no it isn't...

Damn near everyone I know plays farmville or some other Zynga game, and none of them have commited any acts of violence over it. Whatever sentence she gets will be too kind for her.

 

[Lullabye]

I hope this woman dies.
1: for killing a baby
2: for blaming videogames.
3: For playing farmville.

 

[Eneljie]

What the fuck?

"I got angry doing something else and while I was still angry I killed my baby, so it's obviously not my fault".

I'm not usually an angry person, but I want her shot. Or preferably shaken to death.

lol, death by karma, awesome.

 

[Hucket]

Maybe I missed something here, but it's just a game? I know Zynga has admitted to making thier games as addictive as possible, but it's still JUST A GAME. If you're weak-willed enough to become an addict from a bunch of pixeliated animals there's no reason you should have children. You can take care of your unreal animals but you can't care for your real baby, it was said before, who let this child stay here?

OT: This mother should be locked up for as long as possible, no niceities about her being a women or anything else. 50 years should be a long enough detox for her (although she'll probably find something else to get "addicted" too, and i hope it f**ks her up)

 

[TheTurtleMan]

This is the most disgusting thing in a long time. I hope that she lives a horrible fifty years of solitary confinement because killing her seems a little too humane in this situation.

I do however think that people are misunderstanding why she is blaming Farmville. She is obviously unfit to be in any sort of parental position and if it wasn't Farmville, it would have been something else like burnt toast or a late package in the mail. She is just grasping at straws so she can try to make it easier on herself.

I doubt anyone with even the most basic cognitive skills knows video games isn't the cause of shaking her own baby to death. This of course is just from my perspective.

 

[daspaintrain]

I bet the Jack motherfucking Thompson will eat this up.

Fuck him.
And fuck her, too.

 

[radarbsm]

It's called "Hest Of The Moment" and it's a mitigating factor that can be applied to a lot of things, but most typically to cases of murder and manslaughter. The arguement being that when a person is extremely angry they can become temporarly insane and thus no longer fully liable for their actions. The original reasoning behind this was for cases of someone baiting another person to attack them. The idea being that if someone gets another person full of enough rage through their actions or comments, the attack while still unlawful can be considered somewhat understandable and justified. Precedent being what it is however this has been warped well outside of it's original intent.

I think you mean Heat of the moment.

I do not know how this would apply to this case, because of the second attack and the cooling off period.

 

[radarbsm]

Why did they not try to get 1st degree murder. She must of had some type of intent. Not only did she stop shaking the baby to go for a cigarette, but then come back and did it again.

That's exactly what I was thinking and the whole 'It was farmville' thing will probably get her nothing like the punishment (life in prison) that she should get.
Im betting on a 20-25 year scentence.

She'll be out in 10-15.

I think I figured it out. They have enough evidence for 2nd degree murder to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But do not have enough evidence for 1st degree murder even if she did have intent.

 

[thedeathscythe]

I certainly hope that Tobias' time in prison is a long and horrific experience that comes to a brutal end in the back corner of the laundry room

Okay, I get what she did was terrible. But that's a little sadistic isn't it?

There is one rule in prison: Don't molest or kill children. If the people in prison find out she killed a baby, this is exactly what will happen to her. It's the one thing they don't tolerate. You might have killed your dad, you might have killed and raped your brother, but you don't fuck with kids

While that's true in a lot of male prison's, she'd go to a female one. I'm sure they'd feel the same way, since many of them are probably mothers or aunts themselves, but let's just hope they have the same rules as the men. I hear people who rape or kill children don't live too long in prison...no joke, I hear baby rapists rarely last their sentence, and good riddance. Many are thrown in the vulnerable prisoner wing, and aren't even safe there.

 

[Snotnarok]

You can't blame an addiction for your actions because it's your fault for becoming addicted to it in the first place. Morons these addicts, seriously

 

[Kurokami]

What the fuck?

"I got angry doing something else and while I was still angry I killed my baby, so it's obviously not my fault".

I'm not usually an angry person, but I want her shot. Or preferably shaken to death.

I might be a bit too eager to believe in human kind, but I don't see her saying it was facebooks fault here, I see her saying what happened.

"She told investigators that she became angry with the infant because he was crying while she was playing FarmVille on Facebook; she claimed she shook the baby, had a cigarette and then shook him again, adding that he may have hit his head while she was shaking him."

I assume because of the title that there's more to it, but I'm gonna try stay hopeful that its just the writer getting ahead of himself. (Granted I only read this small segment so its not like I looked into the actual article)

It's called "Hest Of The Moment" and it's a mitigating factor that can be applied to a lot of things, but most typically to cases of murder and manslaughter. The arguement being that when a person is extremely angry they can become temporarly insane and thus no longer fully liable for their actions. The original reasoning behind this was for cases of someone baiting another person to attack them. The idea being that if someone gets another person full of enough rage through their actions or comments, the attack while still unlawful can be considered somewhat understandable and justified. Precedent being what it is however this has been warped well outside of it's original intent.

I think you mean Heat of the moment.

I do not know how this would apply to this case, because of the second attack and the cooling off period.

I assume after contemplating her actions she decided to fix it and shook him in the opposite direction.

(that's sarcasm, I only say so because I've been taken seriously several times while saying shit like this)

OK. Um, I'm going to just lasso my brain into her world for a moment. OK, the baby was crying while she was doing something else. She decides she better shake it to shut it up. Next, she has a calming cigarette on the patio. Then, she decides that the baby is still a problem, so she shakes it again, smacking it in the head as well, in order to kill it. ...but it should only be second degree, because she had to be called away from Farmville to do the deed the first time.

Ignoring how sad and tired this makes me feel, any who are worried that the game could ever be blamed for this by the most crazed crusader need not worry this time. Although if you're worried about Farmville's reputation more than the fact that this ever happened, you've got the same problems this woman has.

She didn't hit his head on purpose, according to her. And I assume he was still crying and she mistook shaking for a perfectly valid parenting strategy, I wouldn't say she's a murderer so much as a moron.

As for the second degree murder, I assume the offer was given so that they wouldn't have to spend more money than is needed to get her sentenced.

I'm not sure what's worse, that their blaming farmville for killing a child, or calling farmville a game.

Probably the best comment on here. =]