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S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby'

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm

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.

dumber than leaving the child in a car

lol, there is a video already posted in the apple daily thread

reminds of the that story where the couples were too addicted of Dungeon and Dragons, and left their babies to starve. the popo found out that the babies had cat urnine on their heads :rolleyes:

wow that's fucked up... poor child

41 yr old marrying a 25 is quite an achievement though. :haha:

XBOX Achievement: Pedophile WIN: you have married someone below half plus 7.

I wonder if the met on KoreanCupid.com.......

BTW anyone ever watch Trainspotting? This story reminds me of the dead baby.

Prius causes couple to kill their baby!

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The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.

At least this headline isn't about the continuing saga of Toyota's woes!

they wanted a daughter?

hmmm o.O wasnt there a similar story about a couple playing WoW and forgot about there baby and he/she died.. XD seems like a lot of retarded parents out there..

wow I mean I heard horrible stories on WoW before but this is unreal>< Worst I have experience is bf/gf playing WoW in the guild I was in and the GF started sending naked pics of her and start webcamming with another guy in the guild lol.

That's disgusting........ a 41 year old with a 25 year old?

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Originally Posted by Mr.Campo (Post 6846246)

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Originally Posted by The Situation (Post 6846205)

That's disgusting........ a 41 year old with a 25 year old?

I think this 40 year old guy at work is banging this 19 year old at work. Teh funni!

i wonder how many koreans would commit suicide if the internet went down for at least a day...

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Originally Posted by hk20000 (Post 6845910)

41 yr old marrying a 25 is quite an achievement though. :haha:

Not if she's fugly

wow that is fucked... i've never heard of prius online though.

I can see this game moving to here. Who needs to have sex and make a real baby when you can do it online!