Baby Starves To Death While Parents Raise Virtual Child

A man and a woman have been arrested for letting their infant daughter starve to death while they raised a virtual child in the online game PRIUS. The Korean couple, known only as the Kims, returned home after a 12-hour gaming session at a "PC Bang" Internet parlor to find their baby dead. Tests confirmed the child had died of malnutrition.

[ClownBelt]

WTF? Those two are dumbasses.

[FangBlade]

death penalty

[AliTheBrit19]

Yeah its about as sick as it gets, do they have capital punishment in Korea?

[UnSelf]

then who's goin to raise the virtual child?

nah but seriously this is disgusting but i wish ppl would lstop screaming death penalty at every turn like thats goin to somehow subdue ppl from doin outrageous crimes

These ppl should spend the rest of life in prison, allowed to live to remember the suffering the caused others.

Sadly, if Korea is anything like America, this may only be classified as Negligible Homicide and they may only get Murder 2 or even Man 1

[pangitkqb]

And beat them up if they cry.

[Greywulf]

"death penalty?
then who's goin to raise the virtual child?
"

Holy..#$@?#%@3... lol..you're going to hell..

[mcnablejr]

i love the *insert clearly innapropriate comment* followed by ''nar but seriously''..

[FamilyGuy]

The kid was left at home alone?

Why didn't the chicks parents feed it while they were gone so long?

Geez, they admitted to feeding it rotten powered milk too...

[deafwing]

WTF ... that's in-human.

[mcnablejr]

or was it meant to be a pun?

[Megaton]

I remember a very similar article awhile back about some WoW addicts who let their baby starve to death cause they didn't wanna stop playing. These instances both remind me of the scene in Trainspotting where the woman discovers that her baby is dead after much neglect from doing junk. Very sad.

[deafwing]

take your pick -

inhuman - Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel.
inhumane - Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion;

according to thefreedictionary.com so perhaps they fit both.

[sikbeta]

AH...GOD... couple of Idiots!..Now Zealots and Dinosaurs will point with their finger and blame everything Game-Related

[Pebz]

"I am for the death penalty. Who commits terrible acts must get a fitting punishment. That way he learns the lesson for the next time."
- Britney Spears

Not like such punishment will prevent this from happening again in other cases either, because I'm pretty sure someone who forgets that their baby is home alone and starving is not really in a clear state of mind and "oh, I could get the death penalty for this" is the last thing they are thinking about.

I'm suspecting there is more to it than "evil parents that deserve to die", like perhaps them raising a virtual daughter cause they didn't know how to raise a real one and were trying to learn. Or perhaps just plain gaming addiction, which I'm sure most here have experienced at some level, that at a serious level can make someone forget pretty much everything else.

Such things happen, and no punishment or examples set will change that, because in most cases it's a symptom of a problem, not the root of the problem itself.

[Raz]

Explain to me the point of raising a virtual child when you have a REAL one at home, starving. If you think you can learn anything about raising children from a simulator, you obviously have never had children.

You can point to this as a result of a larger issue, but that doesn't change the simple fact of the matter: they fed a real baby rotten milk and left it to starve while they got their game on. A couple of unemployed deadbeats living with their parents.

And I realize how disconnected we get reading things over the Internet, but try and understand that real life is a bit more visceral - 'these things just happen' is not something you say in connection with the death of a child. Everything "just happens"; actually living it is something else entirely.

[Pebz]

"Explain to me the point of raising a virtual child when you have a REAL one at home, starving. If you think you can learn anything about raising children from a simulator, you obviously have never had children.

You can point to this as a result of a larger issue, but that doesn't change the simple fact of the matter: they fed a real baby rotten milk and left it to starve while they got their game on. A couple of unemployed deadbeats living with their parents."

Well, it's not about what I think or what you think, it's about what those parents think, isn't it? Perhaps they never had children before and thought they could learn something from it, as you yourself said such a person could do. The point is we don't know what they were thinking, we can't simply superimpose our situation and knowledge on other people and judge them from that perspective. Not if we want to know why and what actually happened, rather than just get some empty satisfaction because they got punished for it.

"And I realize how disconnected we get reading things over the Internet, but try and understand that real life is a bit more visceral - 'these things just happen' is not something you say in connection with the death of a child. Everything "just happens"; actually living it is something else entirely."

I didn't say these things "just happen", as in "I don't care", I said these things happen whether punishment is given or not, because they are not necessarily acts of "evil people", but perhaps a symptom of something deeper.

[ButterToast]

reason #562 why some people shouldn't be allowed to procreate.

[JsonHenry]

forced castration and whatever the normal penalty for murder is where they live is what I would throw at them.

[PopEmUp]

make me sick *yuck*

[mikeslemonade]

I didn't know Bungie was Korean and his last name is Kim.

[FadeToBlack]

They should be executed

[Kurt Russell]

Hehe, sound like a rubbish version of the movie Trainspotting!

Those of you who have responded death penalty are chumps... Nobody should be able to decide that, especially a spotty 15 year old.

[Terry Tate]

They let the child starve to death. They KNOWINGLY fed it ROTTEN POWDERED MILK!! They frakin SPANKED a 9 month old baby becuase it was crying.
I'm so furious right now. I'm a single father of three. All my children live with me and they are the most important thing in the world. How could these people do this?
Some feel the death peanlty is too harsh. It's not. Period. These people deserve to be put to death, in much the same way that they killed their baby. Just put them in a cell with some rotten food, beat them regularly and let them waste away. Good riddance.

[mastiffchild]

No, killing these idiots would not be the right thing to do. surely, if we want to stop future happenings of a similar nature we must find out the whys and whens and hows of the case. See if we can't find things an outsider could spot in other families where this is at risk of happening and maybe even create an atmosphere where people, like these, with serious problems feel able to come forward for help in raising their actual, real life child/children, no? We kill them we lose any chance of them making anything even slightly better for them and throw away any chance we have of learning why this happens and preventing it happening again.

Honestly, I'm of the mind that two wrongs don't make a right and a society that punishes violence with violence sends some very dangerously mixed messages to it's citizens anyway. However, on top of that I feel it's like throwing the baby out with the bath water to do so when understanding and prevention of future tragedies could come about through intelligently working with these fools. There has to be triggers that make this happen and signs that could warn us if and when it is, no? Surely that's a better option than just letting them off the hook with an early death which saves them from ever facing up to what they did to their own child-I'd prefer we find SOME small shred of good in the mess and let them think about what they did for the rest of their lives. Let it eat at them.

Christ, we don't know everything about them. for all we know either or both could be mentally sufficient or psychotic or anything and need to know just what went n and, more importantly in many ways , why. then, amybe, some child in the future may be a little luckier. RIP little one, God bless. Sad, sad times we live in.

[SuperStrokey1123]

This makes me so freaking angry, I would give anything up just to make my little girl smile once, and these losers go and kill their baby. It just makes me want to scream.

[Farmhand]

it makes me sick to my stomach that my favorite hobby (video games) can lead to the death of a helpless child. What I would like to see done to these people cant be described in detail here at N4G or on any other site.

Bubbles is correct though, these people need to live a long life in prison, with the walls of their cell covered with pics of the child.

[cyborg6971]

Why let them live off of other people in jail for eighty years for dumb. You conservatives need to quit stagnating progression and get a back bone.

[Megaton]

"You conservatives need to quit stagnating progression and get a back bone."

^ lolwut

Pro-DP is typically a Republican/conservative point of view.
Anti-DP is typically a Democrat/liberal point of view.

[Kurylo3d]

i dont know what democrats uve been talkn too, but all the dems i know(including myself ) are pro death penalty....

I mean really.. put them in prison and remind them of their child to make them sad? Really?

That same child they fed rotten food too.. beat and starved to death... Do you really think they care about the childs death.

[Darkfocus]

when a convicts on death row they can file as many appeals as they want and usually with a state appointed lawyer too, and those appeals have to be fought with by a another state appointed lawyer and then a judge also payed by the state has to decide the case. this process continues for years and there's also the chance that an innocent person is being sent to their death.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo...

http://www.deathpenalty.org...

[cyborg6971]

Yea well then shorten the appeals system and do you know how much it costs counties and states to house one inmate per year? 21,000.00 times oh say 60 65 years what do you come up with? Your argument doesn't hold water.

Below I wish I could but I'm at work. I'll check them out when I get home.

[Darkfocus]

maybe you should read some of the links before hastily jumping to conclusions

second links got a hole bunch examples with data backing it up

[nefertis]

I hope the parents dont drop the soap if they live in prison. Playb3yond

[FadeToBlack]

Let them spend the rest of their life in jail??
Why, so tax payer can pay to keep scum like this alive?
Not only should they be executed, but they should also suffer
the same torture as their poor child.

[mastiffchild]

And what happens when society murders the wrong person for a crime you people deem worthy of a death penalty?What then? Have we arrived at a place where judicial practise is infallible? not when I last checked we didn't and not even in the US or UK where how much cash you have at the start of a trial can have just as much bearing on how you get on as your guilt or innocence. Seriously, how many people get banged up for crimes they never committed, were incapable of judging or didn't even understand? You just can't go with a death penalty under these circumstances.

Personally I don't see how we could EVEN if the court process was perfect 100% of the time as a society which punishes violence with more violence is sending out some very odd messages about what's right and what's wrong, isn't it? Plus how can we learn and prevent future crimes if we just off the culprits without ever knowing why they did things, how they did things and what the early signs were so we might prevent future crimes? The cost of keeping prisoners alive and the cost of DR and executing them is of no importance at all if we can fins a way to save just one life by researching the miscreants.

There's also the mental state of the culprits to investigate:what illnesses effect psychotic behaviour, what mental problems can make these things happen and what can we see that may help us stop things going so far in other cases? I just see no real sense in falling for our base desire for revenge when there's chances to stop other, awful things from happening with a different approach. Don't make what happens to the killer the important thing-it isn't and they aren't. We should, instead, treasure what we can glean from these individuals while keeping them alive in the hope that they start to understand their evil and feel the guilt all their lives. Keeping them alive also shows a merciful society that is progressive about stopping these actions from happening in the future and doesn't show our kids that violence is an answer to anything-importantly, it also allows us to compensate and make up in some way to those who get jailed erroneously in these cases as if we'd killed them we'd be guilty of a crime they didn't even commit and would have no way of rectifying our mistake-to me that shows we shouldn't be putting ourselves in the position of Gods turning people's live's on and off.

Honestly guys, to me finance doesn't come into it and a lifetime of guilt is a better and, at least reversible, punishment then turning on the gas tanks. We have a bigger responsibility towards the future than a death penalty allows and facing that is much more important than allowing ourselves to sink to the level of vengeful killers as well as the original culprits. That's without even thinking about the rights and wrongs on a one to one basis of taking the life of even the most awful human being(see Orwell's piece about the sentenced prisoner on his way to his death if you're interested as it's an amazing bit of writing)and going from a purely "what's best" point of view-for our society.I don't even believe in deterrents for these kinds of acts as nothing seems to stop them punishment wise.

I just don't see any good coming from killing murderers, or killing anyone, for that matter, when we're all fallible, our courts are fallible and there's so much we can learn front them to help prevent things happening in similar ways in the future.

[mcnablejr]

failed.

[FishCake9T4]

Kill those peices of Sh1t.

[2FootYard]

Video games kill.

[PS3and4_HAS_GAMES]

that shyt is not even funny man..thats a child we are talking about dumb @ss..i hope the parents starve in jail and die

[cyborg6971]

Yeah have some common sense,but then again it's not that common is it.

[weazel]

Ghost, take your pseudo-intellectual sh*t somewhere else man. Yeah, yeah. Everyone understands the deep pain and profundity of your 'mutterings' but this article could do without your brand of waffle. This is just fu*ked up, and the parents should be dealt with as torturing murderers, 'cause that is what they are. It's not gamings fault, not society, or any other 'easy' target. The finger of blame points squarely at these two fuc*ers, square in the eyes.

[2FootYard]

This should have been left blank. I f**ked up big. Castration is the answer.

Oh and uh don't take advice from the cyborg fellow. He gets high by inhaling the chemicals in computer dusters.

[Nitrowolf2]

dumba$$es
that is just sick, raising a fake baby over yours wow

[SLLCKGT]

People get addicted to all kinds of things that makes them neglect their responsibilities i.e. gambling, drugs, sex, shopping, alcohol, tv, etc. Funny thing is video games are the only thing thats ever blamed as the cause if its involved.

[cyborg6971]

There is no such thing as addiction just a lack of self control. Addiction is an excuse word made up so shrinks can make more money. Addicted to sex please. Who doesn't want that all the time. Just because you can't get it whenever you want do you go out a rape someone no.

[Pebz]

You are essentially arguing semantics, akin to saying "there is no darkness, just lack of light". Repeatedly doing something out of lack of self control is pretty much the definition of an addiction. Even things that are considered positive can become an addiction if done obsessively, merely as a habit, rather than why it was considered positive to begin with. Including pretty much everything, even sex.

And some people actually do go out and rape someone.

[mastiffchild]

Addiction exists. Any habit can become so forceful overe time that it starts to rule people's lives and affect even the most, to us, basic and obvious things outside of the addiction to the point they become irrelevant to the sufferer. Clearly, it's a lot easier to understand a physical addiction like Alcohol or Heroin as the physiology is well known and well studied but when people are doing seemingly out of character things just to pursue what, to us, seems like a past time at the most then clearly there's something seriously wrong.

Naturally, this is clearer when the sufferer was once what you might term "normal" with everyday cares and worries treated in the way most of us do-things exactly like looking after yourself and your family. when these begin to slide and begin to lose their importance for someone then it's clear they haven't just got a bloody hobby. I don't pretend to understand how sex or a video game can become your master to the same extent a powerful drug can but I've seen both happen and both have amazing similarities and often affect the very same people in my experience as sometimes an addict will replace one harmful addiction with another, on the surface, less damaging one to "give them something to do" to replace the original problem. So, to me, there's a strong personality trait behind a lot of it.

I'm Bi Polar myself and have been shown how many other sufferers can hedge towards addictive traits(sometimes as a form of self medicating-be it with drugs themselves or actions that release the feel good chemicals within us naturally as it's these feelings from these chemicals which make us want to keep doing things)and I'm guessing a lot of other conditions can push you towards the edge of addiction as well. It's never black and white, never-even though this is all clearly wrong(and even more so as there's the two of them)we have no idea whether the two were already damaged in other ways and though it's tempting to judge it's not what we should do without complete knowledge, imo.

I've also seen a friend of my wife give up a serious drug problem(she fell pregnant and cleaned up FOR her unborn, at that time, child), go down with post nata depression, not be able to even look at her child and replace it all with WoW to the point where you have to bribe her away from the PC. It's awfully sad and debilitating for her and, you have to imagine, difficult for the baay who gets , as does the woman, great love and support from dad, her parents and a lot of us in the extended family and mates grouping. A baby, though, needs her mum and the first step must be the weening off a damn MMO. Trust me, I've seen this and it exists, it's sad and it's soul destroying and not a buzz word bandied about by quack shrinks for extra cash.

Christ, because a lot of people with my problem have ended up with thrill seeking behaviour issues I'm not allowed a bank card at 37! Without knowing it I'd been spending stupidly all my life and a lot of BP sufferers do similar things or end up gambling more than they own for the thrill of it and, I'm guessing, that release of internal chemicals common to most addictive situations. Certainly there are other ways and means of becoming and staying addicted and i'm no expert of any kind but to glibly suggest it can't exist is proper madness in my book-and I'm not right myself!

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

Milo...

[mcnablejr]

i dont understand.

[Obama]

I think he meant to say Milo = virtual child...

[-MD-]

Tasteless jokes are tasteless.

[Two-Face]

''The Kims also confessed to police that they had been feeding rotten, powdered milk and had often spanked their crying baby''.

Dumb clueless parents, doing everything wrong.

[mcnablejr]

Graphic.

[washingmachine]

lol,the way the world and humans are nowdays its best to be dead

[Madeline12]

You should remember the world is far better now then it has ever been before.
Just compare life for humans in the last 4 thousands years(in all different cultures and ways of living related to advancements in technology etc) to now...
We are so much better now.

By your thoughts we should have never existed to begin with.
No thx

[Kalowest]

Nothing new, happens everyday, I'm still waiting to here about a Halo addict running out the house with a rifle, shooting little kids while calling them Grunts.

[GrandDragon]

Why do some of you get offended when some one blames video games? If you get a offended by that then some of you have got mental problems.

I don't give a crap when someone blames video games for a particular crime committed because Video games don't benefit anyone in the first place, so what's there to get offended about? and addictions to anything could end up in some crime being committed.

Some of you are too a attached to a piece of plastic.

[mcnablejr]

you are on a gaming site you know, theres no saying you are any less attached to gaming than any of us.

[andyrew007]

Its not offensive, its the fact that it has nothing to do with games really, ye the parents played games but if they haven't got the mental capacity to know when to stop then its their fault....Anyway, its really messed up how they could do that.

[kvg88]

Seriously, if you're going to go through with having a kid, at least have the decency to take care of it.

[aCHU]

i seriously think that they should be put in prison and starved to death..
seems fair to me..
that just fvcking sux man.. that child has no life and no future thanx to the dumb iresposible parents.
.
it makes me sad that if the baby would of survived it would of had something to look forward too,like bieng a stressed teenager or getting its first job ect ect..
thats the way i like to think about anyways. :(

i do also agree that putting the parents to death right away makes you no better then them as its murder for murder.. and Murder is murder,doesnt matter how its done its still considered murder.

[Captain Tuttle]

Terrible, tragic story.

[cyborg6971]

Who the hell would disagree with that statement come on show yourself coward.

[Solid_Malone]

sick twisted f@cks

[Pebz]

If this is any indication of the mentality around on N4G;

1.1 -
death penalty
Agree(21) | Disagree(1)

1.4 - Starve them to death.
And beat them up if they cry.
Agree(14) | Disagree(0)

I'd guess that people don't really care much for the "tragic" part, but more about the "evil guys getting killed" part. Does wonders to disprove the gamer stereotypes floating around I guess.

[pangitkqb]

Yes, I am an evil, heartless person. I don't care about tragedy at all and only want to punish "bad guys." All I care about is Halo; I never put an ounce of thought into any of societies woes or challenges. I am a mindless drone capable of only the most rudimentary understanding of common perceptions of "good" and "evil."

Or...

I simply have a different opinion than you do. And, heaven forbid, I might have even spent a great deal of time forming said opinion.

Thanks for lumping me in with the stereotypes. And yes, my heart goes out to that baby.

[Pebz]

Take into context what I was replying to (comment 12.1), and you'll see that I was comparing agrees/disagrees, which one might use to form a general opinion about people here, i.e stereotypes. I don't care much for stereotypes myself, I don't see things as that black/white, but I'm sure you can see how this doesn't do much to support the outrage gamers have every time someone uses such stereotypes in "gaming-related" news.

By all means have a different opinion than me, the whole purpose of a forum is for people to share different opinions, but stating something without explaining the reasoning behind it does tend to come out as a "matter of fact", rather than an opinion.

I'd gladly hear your reasonings, I might just learn something from it.

[Gago]

just wow

[Kalowest]

Yep, WoW is a killer too.

[UltimateSin]

That's just sad.

[Akagi]

I hope they rot in prison.

Nah, wait, I hope they're forced to do severe slave labour then rot in prison at night.

[smilydude13]

You guys are really quite quick to cite the need for capital punishment. I've noticed a trend lately that when people read about somebody's impending execution the start to go on some sort of moralistic crusade about how capital punishment is a barbaric relic of the past and should no longer be practiced. Then lets say there's an article below in the same nature as this one and the very same people start rapidly demanding the death penalty as if that fixes everything.

The death penalty would be rather extreme for this. I somehow doubt that these morons are intentionally evil people with the only goal in their black heart and mind is to murder children by neglecting them. They're mentally ill and should try to be rehabilitated into functioning members of society instead of cut down for reasonable motive. Sure, what happened was terrible and happened because of their neglect but I don't believe they intentionally wanted to starve their daughter to death. They were just too screwed up to notice.

You guys need to get over you knee-jerk reaction to demand death for everything. It's absurd.

[Mamba24]

i agree with everything you said except the part about giving them the chance to be functioning members of society. They already had that chance and failed miserably. This really is no different than murder and makes it extra sickening to think that they brought this innocent soul into this world only to make it suffer. I can't imagine dying from malnourishment is a pleasant way to die. If anything I think a suitable punishment would be for these people to live the rest of their lives in some sort of a mental institute where a psychiatrist treats them until they fully understand and emotionally grasp what they have done, if that is even possible for the mind of a lunatic to understand. It's very difficult to punish people who don't think logically.

[smilydude13]

That's a valid point Mamba. They had a chance and they screwed it up royally. But I believe if somebody has the capacity to become a productive member and good willed member of society they should generally have a second chance. I believe locking people up who could just as easily be working, living, and contributing to society is pointless and nearly as big as a waste of life as letting a child starve when it could easily be avoided. If they're beyond rehabilitation then them let sit at some facility for the rest of their sad lifetime.

[Krimmson]

I feel ashamed for being both a gamer and being Korean. Just goes to show that there are irresponsible people all over the world.

This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

[R3DD]

i hate stupid parents like these two. Im a gamer parent myself. But my kids always come first. I just can't play online games when theyre around cuz i cant pause when they need me.
Who the hell is disagreeing with our comments? is the person thats doin that a bad parent or something?

[The BS Police]

Of people who should have no right to raise kids.

[AstroZombie1]

Very sad news, RIP little baby.

[lovestospoodge]

could the disagrees for that have some freakin back up. ffs

[macalatus]

Two words...

F****ING STUPID!!

[Relientk77]

Also the parents are winners of the worst parenting award

[AstroZombie1]

Why disagree at my comment above?

[R3DD]

they must be an idiot parent as well.

[djfullshred]

AstroZombie1...

No point is asking why there are mindless trolls on the Internet. This is their refuge, because nobody wants to put up with their idiocy in the real world.

[stuntman_mike]

they are probably the same kind of people too busy looking after their virtual children to give you an answer.

[sajj316]

As a parent of two girls below the age of 2, this story just ripped into my heart. I'm a gamer, but a father first. As much as I want to play the PS3 when I get back home from work, I am responsible for their well being. Family first, everything else is second. This is the definition of irresponsible.

[R3DD]

so i guess the person that is disagreeing everyone is too afraid to let us know who u are?

[jjesso1993]

well they do need punished and those kids need be taken to a family that can look after them give them the love they deserve iam not all for death penality if any one has heard of the derek bentlay case i think you might have idea of why iam so againts it would prefer people be kept in prison for life i dont mean 36 years or 8 years like one of uncles got for murder life should be life.

[R3DD]

so a 3 month old baby girl dies and ppl disagree with that? That person doesn't deserve to be human.

[TwistedMetal]

Samuel jackson- triple movie pack quote.

[Gamer7l]

...that quote is SPECIFICALLY from "A Time to Kill". If you're going to use a quote, it helps to reference it properly...or don't bother. :o

[Gamer7l]

...I KNEW they were Korean. There's been so many stories over the years of Koreans with crazy MMO addictions that lead to their deaths, or become a danger to others. Pathetic.

[stuna1]

But that doesn't change the outcome of the tragedy! If anything it adds to the loss, instead of the death of the child now you have the deaths of the parents also. It's obvious the death penalty is not the answer, but maybe the solution is more on a phycological level.

[Dawg360187]

this is not shocking to me... this world is going to end soon

[nefertis]

that i do agree with. Playb3yond

[xg-ei8ht]

Smiley wtf.

You sound do-gooder. expect do-gooder fuc everything up.

To lenient on people.

Oh he never meant it.
Oh they feel bad for what they've done.
Oh can't we just help them.

No you cannot help people who murder,etc

They are the scum of the earth and should all be destroyed.

That baby was unable to do anything about it, defenseless.

Why should they get a second chance?

Capital punishment isn't even the same as years ago, and back in the day, the reason they stopped it was because of some of them they go wrong.

They did not have the methods of today, dna etc.

No freaking deathrow, Just hang them. Trust me on this.

If it was put out, you'd be HUNG - period/, alot of people would scared of doing s%^t.

I hope they burn in hell.

[smilydude13]

The world isn't black and white. I'm not excusing them for their inaction. I'm just stating that you people tend to get a little trigger happy with demanding the death penalty and that not everybody who has commited actions/inactions that led to anothers death deserves it.

"Capital punishment isn't even the same as years ago, and back in the day, the reason they stopped it was because of some of them they go wrong.

They did not have the methods of today, dna etc. "

I couldn't really understand what you were trying to convey here. Were you saying that everybody we execute was guilty of the crime due to our investigative methods such as DNA? If so I don't think that's an entirely accurate statement.

[bobrea]

Oooh, the irony.

[DigitalAnalog]

They're addicted to a game which objective was "caring" for a child while neglecting their own!

-End statement

[TwistedMetal]

make the parents pay dearly because I honestly dont want them to have another kid. Why is it 100's of millions of people can do the right thing and you got a few people like this doing the wrong thing. We dont need this crap in society. They dont get a second chance because the baby didnt. There virtual baby in second life gets infinite chances whic is ironic. Maybe we should give hitler a second chance or bin laden. You see how dumb that is. a killer is a killer because they all can have the same excuse. 12 hours on a game with a baby, that should of reminded you of your baby is no excuse.

[Dogswithguns]

Dammm, that's so sad....

[Len92]

if they were to remove all the computers in korea, koreans would nuke the whole world to show their frustration.

[cyberwaffles]

one word: losers

[Fadetoblack69]

*Shrug* The only thing I found "surprising" about this article is that is doesn't happen a lot more. Why bother slaving away at real life when you can have a much better virtual life. Yeah I know it sounds crazy but you know there's a ton of ppl out there that take their virtual lives a lot more seriously than their real ones.

[stuntman_mike]

I know it sounds a bit totalitarian, but i think some people should have to get a license to have children. so that the living conditions and welfare can be monitored.

It seems a life means absolutely nothing to some people in today's society, they take it for granted.

Every time i read a story like this it feels like it chips another bit of humanity away, so sad.

[blakstarz]

Capital punishment is too good for them, and prison is too good for them, let them suffer to the point that they wish they where dead....jail is too easy for some people, I say like they azz suffer and that poor little infant did.....they do not ask to be brought into this world...so why do something like that.
Waterboard them with rotten milk.....let'em walk over hot coals. Make they stupid azz think twice about what they did...and if any disagree, you deserve a quick punch to your face.

[artsaber]

The gaming session had nothing to do with it. I think it is safe to say that it takes more than 12 hours to starve an infant to death. Although, no infant should go that long without a meal. Nutrition is very important to their development in all functions of life. Malnutrition did not occur from one 12 hour sitting without a meal. It is a condition of nutritional neglect that is accumulative over a longer period of time.

Well, they have both scored golden Willy Wonka tickets to hell. Try explaining this one at the Pearly Gates.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

''spending up to 12 hours every night at Internet cafes, police said.'

''the couple, both unemployed, lived with the wife's parents. The Kims spent most of their time playing Internet games at local cafes called "PC bangs," even during the wife's pregnancy, officials said.''

''An autopsy by the National Institute of Scientific Investigation concluded that their daughter's death resulted from malnourishment. The Kims also confessed to police that they had been feeding rotten, powdered milk and had often spanked their crying baby.''

That's sick, poor kid.

[Qjimbo]

I'm truly speechless.

[djtek184]

What in the hell is wrong with these parent? This kind of sh!t pisses me off! They brought a life 2 the world just 2 have it suffer to death. I hope this story will make parents stop & think of how vulnurable an infant or child can be. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

[deathbetold]

this is the most disgusting thing i have ever seen when it comes to gamming. i have 2 kids a 5 and 2 year old and i always spend time with them and take care of them. even in mp matches i throw down the controller to tend to them. and i always feed them wtf is wrong with those people.

[Bolts]

Counter Strike and WoW are know killers. But I wanna know more about PRIUS.

[ikral]

May this be WARNING!!! for all of you young gamers, which is more important, life or games.

[DMTarien]

Life only has drugs and sex and suicide for most youth anyway.

I choose to be free of drugs! I CHOOSE DEATH BY SNU SNU!

.... I meant death by T.V. and games, which I am adept at making apparent =/

[ChickeyCantor]

After all done and said, all of you will forget this the next time your Alarm Clock goes off. So lets not pretend.

[mushroomwig]

Video games are obviously the cause for todays problems, without access to them I'm confident that crimes like this will be prevented.

That's what some ass politician will be saying soon.

[skottey]

Death Penalty- Not in this case. This is neglect obviously. I am surprised they didn't say they woke up in the morning and found the baby dead as opposed to admitting they were out raising the virtual baby. They cooked their own geese.

But now, they shouldn't get the death penalty for this. i am pro-death penalty but it needs to be used sparingly. There is nothing worse than being put on death row and never really getting a date to die. With appeals and everything, you would think you are going to die in six months and then it goes on and on and on. Eventually, you think it ain't gonna happen and then it is time. It would be the not knowing that would be the hardest.

On the flip side. These two clowns will probably get TV and computers along with their life sentence. Hard time should be hard.

[LiquifiedArt]

Not surprised

[gameraxis]

i HATE hearing things like this, when little ones get hurt especially babies for something they have no control over, man i just want to seriously face to face these "parents."

imagine, the baby was spanked (at WAY to early an age if its ok to spank your child at all) and it was because he/she was crying probably because she was SICK and HUNGRY!

this is so depressing, in these cases i really hope there is a heaven so this poor baby can live happily in God's hands (god in a literal sense)

[dredgewalker]

What the hell? What does Milo have to do anything about this? Lets leave the fanboy comments out of this.

[knightoftears]

This saddens me to no end that the stupidity of people continues to be expanded and displayed by f#$ksticks like these two. They should be in pieces somewhere!!!

[lizard81288]

i'm sure they will do that themselves while playing star craft, and forget to eat, then die from malnutrition themselves.

:D

sad though that a baby died.

[vader1231231]

RIP, child.

[lizard81288]

where were the parent's parents?!
it said they live with them, but where are they? you'd think they'd help out and feed the baby and babysit when they were gone. especially since its a newborn, were they gone of 12 hours too?! i'd say they are just as quilty. IIRC it said they lived in their basement, which i'd assume it'd be part of the main house.
they should have kept tabs on them.
>:/

[AssassinHD]

Babies do not starve to death after only 12 hours. The article mentions that they had been feeding the baby rotten powdered milk, and that the couple lived with the wife's parents. The article does not mention whether or not the child was left home alone.

[Domer25]

This makes no sense.

[DMTarien]

You know your a dumbass when you first read the headline and go "hahahaha, dumb-asses" before it even sinks in -.- I deal with too much fiction in my life apparently.

I hate when people do this kinda crap D; I dont just mean the starving the kid thing. Thats messed up but things this bad and worse always happen, but no one cares... But it HAAAAAAD to be a couple morons that were game junkies. Now if this spreads around it's more bad marks on gamers. If they had been bikers, hikers, dikers (people that build dikes? o.O), then no one would give it a second though after the news was over and they went to finish cooking w/e meal they were in the middle of..

Listen world! Not all of us game addicts let our babies starve! MOST OF US DONT EVEN GET TO BREED O.O

[souljah]

We should kill them with rocks.Anywayz, i ain`t sayin that the game caused this, those 2 are phacked in the head.

[wingman32x]

Absolutely disgusting. Whatever prison time they get would be too good for them.

[B00M]

Some f*cked up sh!t right here, seriously people priorities

[bviperz]

and give them only virtual food to eat. Serves them right...

[AngryTypingGuy]

This is both sad and disgusting. As the father of a young daughter, hearing something like that horrifies me.

"Game addiction has become a serious concern in South Korea. Frequent news of addicted gamers dropping dead from exhaustion, growing number of students skipping school and teenagers showing abnormally violent behavior have prompted the state to start searching for solutions." -- What the hell is it with those people? Gamers dropping dead from exhaustion? I'm sorry, but no game is that good, or important.

[SuperStrokey1123]

I wonder if child killers do as poorly in prison over there as they do over here?