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S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:12 am
by .AWAKE.
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A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.
The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.
Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.
He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.
The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.
An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.
The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.
The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:20 am
by TheDrop
f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife? thats quite an age gap
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:30 am
by Squirt
UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife?
thats quite an age
gap
Hahahahahahahhhahhhahahahahhhhhh
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:37 am
by Spiritual
Squirt wrote:UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife?
thats quite an age
gap
Hahahahahahahhhahhhahahahahhhhhh
So they were farming too hard and forgot to level up?
OT: Pretty disgusting. Maybe the history has something to do with it... Babies on that area haven't been treated very well in the past either. If you already had a child and the next one wasn't a boy, they got rid of the baby because a girl wouldn't bring any income to the family. They seem to stop valuing life when the problems pile up or something.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:45 am
by TheDrop
Squirt wrote:UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife?
thats quite an age
gap
Hahahahahahahhhahhhahahahahhhhhh
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:46 am
by antics
link?
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:48 am
by salmissra
ye very very sad >.> very very pathetic too. I can never understand hardcore gamers..i mean i play A LOT too but i know how to enjoy myself on occasion.
These two should be starved too -.-
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:57 am
by Ichimaru420
Wow that is really farked up...
Also I wonder how they managed 2 ignore a screaming baby for that long.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:58 am
by Jstar1
thats very sad
I say jail for those parents
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:00 am
by PhoenixRider
Pfft, Koreans.
I say death penalty for those parents.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:29 am
by [SD]Twysta
Owned.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:19 am
by rek
Squirt wrote:UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife?
thats quite an age
gap
Hahahahahahahhhahhhahahahahhhhhh
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:49 am
by Jstar1
Vulcanic God wrote:
OT: Pretty disgusting. Maybe the history has something to do with it... Babies on that area haven't been treated very well in the past either. If you already had a child and the next one wasn't a boy, they got rid of the baby because a girl wouldn't bring any income to the family.
thats china and india, not south korea
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:51 am
by NuclearSilo
UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife? thats quite an age gap
I'd like to have a wife like that later
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:56 am
by Skyve
NuclearSilo wrote:UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife? thats quite an age gap
I'd like to have a wife like that later
My parents have like a 15 years old gap, love has no age!
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:06 am
by NuclearSilo
ExSoldier wrote:NuclearSilo wrote:UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife? thats quite an age gap
I'd like to have a wife like that later
My parents have like a 15 years old gap, love has no age!
Maybe. But lots of women marry very older man just because he got lots of money, not because of love
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:08 am
by Sharp324
NuclearSilo wrote:Maybe. But lots of women marry very older man just because he got lots of money, not because of love
Dont worry, your doll will never age.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:40 am
by Smi!ezZ
oh no! that baby was the future GM to come and save Silkroad Online!
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:48 am
by omier
Smi!ezZ wrote:oh no! that baby was the future GM to come and save Silkroad Online!
That's why they needed to eliminate him. The CEO paid them to do it because his game was in danger.
OnTopic:
.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:47 am
by *BlackFox
OMFG, The poor child died of her parents flight from reality.
What the Farking hell is wrong with people?!
Just sick fuckers!
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:46 am
by Melez
Sharp324 wrote:NuclearSilo wrote:Maybe. But lots of women marry very older man just because he got lots of money, not because of love
Dont worry, your doll will never age.
Ohoho, that is a first quality post I see from you there, stranger
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:06 pm
by Shadow
Only in Korea... And Japan. And some other weird places.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:58 pm
by Spiritual
Jstar1 wrote:Vulcanic God wrote:
OT: Pretty disgusting. Maybe the history has something to do with it... Babies on that area haven't been treated very well in the past either. If you already had a child and the next one wasn't a boy, they got rid of the baby because a girl wouldn't bring any income to the family.
thats china and india, not south korea
Most countries on that coast share a more or less similar history & problems so I don't see why it couldn't have happened in other countries than china/india. But you're right about that, it probably never happened in south korea but that area hasn't been known as south korea for that long. There's still a big load of people living there that didn't even born in south korea, I believe it was a part of japan till late 40's and then they had a big war inside korea.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:08 pm
by G-Dragon
Oh boy, I'm korean.
Shame.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:08 pm
by John_Doe
UnbeatableDevil wrote:f
ucking hell.
and 41 year old husband and 25 year old wife? thats quite an age gap
Big woop, google Woody Allen, then be surprise.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:05 pm
by Mirosuke
Uhm, lies!
I bet they were having a LAN party on Starcraft II DEMO!
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:09 pm
by Jstar1
Vulcanic God wrote:Jstar1 wrote:Vulcanic God wrote:
OT: Pretty disgusting. Maybe the history has something to do with it... Babies on that area haven't been treated very well in the past either. If you already had a child and the next one wasn't a boy, they got rid of the baby because a girl wouldn't bring any income to the family.
thats china and india, not south korea
Most countries on that coast share a more or less similar history & problems so I don't see why it couldn't have happened in other countries than china/india. But you're right about that, it probably never happened in south korea but that area hasn't been known as south korea for that long. There's still a big load of people living there that didn't even born in south korea, I believe it was a part of japan till late 40's and then they had a big war inside korea.
what on earth are you talking about..? There are a bunch of people in south korea that aren't south korean? Korea was part of Japan until the end of WWII. Thats like 70 years ago, theres hardly any japanese in korea compared to the number of japanese in it 70 years ago if thats what you mean.
My point is that a lot of asian countries in general have had issues with "boy>girl". But thats history, developed countries like south korea, japan don't have that kind of discrimination anymore. You only see that in developing countries like china, india, cambodia, etc.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:08 pm
by Spiritual
No no, I said many people who are currently living there didn't born during the time it was called "south korea" it was nearly 50's when that happened. But that's not the point, like you said "that's history" that's also what I kept saying so I don't see what's the problem here. >.<
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:19 pm
by G-Dragon
Korea was never part of Japan. It was its own country.
Japan had just ruled over Korea aka Imperialism.
And I don't know how you guys go from negligence of parents to talking about history.
Re: S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:21 pm
by TheDrop
G-Dragon wrote:
And I don't know how you guys go from negligence of parents to talking about history.
'tis SRF
