INTERNET ADDICT 'STRANGLED HER 3-YEAR-OLD SON AFTER GAMING

[Daanyeer]

Internet addict 'strangled her three-year-old son after lengthy gaming session and left him rotting for THREE days'


By Daily Mail Reporter
23rd December 2010


A South Korean mother, exhausted after playing online computer games, allegedly strangled her neglected three-year-old son when he urinated on the flat floor.
The 27-year-old, known by her surname as Kim, is believed to have killed her eldest child after trying to relax following a morning tending to virtual pets and cards on the Internet.

Kim, who police say played online for 10 hours a day, was arrested yesterday in her home city of Cheonan.
She is thought to have left her baby's corpse in the house for THREE days before her in-laws discovered it and alerted the police.

Her neighbours described her house as ‘like a trash site’ where her two children were left crying for hours.
Police in the midwestern city said Kim, who also has a one-year-old son, beat the three-year-old and strangled him after he disturbed her by urinating on the floor and crying.
‘She said she was so mad at him because she was about to take some rest after playing online games for four hours in the morning,’ a city police spokesman told AFP, describing the woman as addicted to game-playing.

She mostly played online card games and those involving the raising of virtual pets, the spokesman said, adding she had no history of mental disorder.
The death in Cheonan is the latest in a growing list of cases related to computer game addiction in one of the world’s most hi-tech societies.
Last month a 15-year-old boy committed suicide after killing his mother for scolding him over excessive playing of computer games.
In May a 41-year-old man was sentenced to two years in jail after he and his wife left their baby daughter to die of malnutrition while raising a ‘virtual child’ on the Internet.

In February, a 32-year-old man died after reportedly playing games for five days with few breaks.
Last year, Kim Sa-rang, a three-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after both her parents spent hours each day in an internet cafe raising a virtual child on an online game, Prius Online.
In 2005, Seungseob Lee visited an Internet cafe in the city of Taegu and played StarCraft almost continuously for fifty hours before having a fatal heart attack.
A friend said: ‘He was a game addict. We all knew about it. He couldn’t stop himself.’
Six weeks before his death, his girlfriend, also an avid gamer, broke up with him, and he had been fired from his job for repeated tardiness.
The South Korean Government estimates that the number of web addicts is about two million in a nation of over 50 million. Some one million addict are thought to be in their 20s or older.

They have recognised that addicts are no longer only teenagers whose problems can be spotted by parents, but are increasingly young adults whose gaming is unsupervised.
Young mothers are especially vulnerable, as they have to spend long periods of time at home with only their young and online friends for company.

From next year free software that limits time users spend on the web will be distributed to those believed to be at risk.
And there is a thriving industry of military style 'boot camps' to help teenagers be weened off playing online games. Even so, youths still play for an average of 23 hours a week.

There is no formal diagnosis of video game addiction in current medical or psychological literature. Inclusion of it as a psychological disorder has been proposed and rejected for the next version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.


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[ScarletMoon]

That's sad but I heard similar stories in the past...

like the south korean boy who killed his parents then commited sucide when his parents took his game away..? or something like that...

[SomaliLoverman]

That's sad but I heard similar stories in the past...

like the south korean boy who killed his parents then commited sucide when his parents took his game away..? or something like that...

That was Rome Italy I was their at the time.

But seriously first thing in my mind... Women don't play video games? Lol

[Arabischer]

Two Snet Internet addicts that come to mind; gpkhalif and caeus.