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It took five years, but a woman who played World of Warcraft
day after day as her three-year-old daughter wasted away, dying of malnutrition and dehydration, is headed to prison. Rebecca Colleen Christie of Las Cruces, New Mexico was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday.Christie's case was at the vanguard of the horrifying news trend of children dying or being hurt while their staggeringly inattentive parents nurse gaming addictions, particularly in social media or MMO gaming. Christie was convicted in November 2009 on second-degree murder and child abandonment charges. It wasn't clear why it took nearly two years to sentence her.
The case against Christie showed that the day the girl died, Christie had been playing Warcraft and chatting with friends she'd made online for 15 hours. Prosecutors said there appeared to be so little food that the girl ate cat food.
Her father, an Air Force sergeant, had been away for nine days when the girl died and expressed reservations about his wife's inability to care for the girl. When a 3 1/2-year-old is eating cat food while mom plays video games, she probably needs a little more from her father than the expression of reservations. He has pleaded guilty to child neglect and will be sentenced in two weeks.
There's a similar case scenario but it was written in Tagalog, sorry English people :(
2 comments:
Give me a gun, I will shoot this girl
I'm not a medical professional, so I'm not qualified to decide whether or not video game addiction is a genuine medical condition or just an offensive technique used by defence lawyers. But I'm certainly not going to sign up to the idea that video games are inherently dangerous. I simply don't believe that they are. What I do believe though is that if you can be completely unaware of the fact that your child is starving to death right in front of you or, even worse, that you are aware, just indifferent, there's something very, very wrong with you to begin with. And that might show up through a video game but if no game is available, it'll show up in another way.
Child protection isn't just a set of laws or something that social workers do. It's a deep, angry, fierce feeling inside every parent, the feeling that nothing is more important than the safety of their child.
And if that feeling isn't there, if the safety of their child is second to anything in their mind, they're not fit to be a parent.
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