Think video games aren’t addictive? Well, perhaps the South Korean couple who decided that hanging out in an Internet cafe all day playing “Prius Online” instead of feeding their child will have time to contemplate that – in jail.
According to police, the couple allowed their 3-month-old baby, who was born premature, to starve to death. They apparently only came home once a day to check on the baby.
From the Associated Press:
The couple found their baby dead on Sept. 24 when they returned home after playing online games at a nearby Internet cafe all night, Yonhap reported.
The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife, both jobless, went into hiding at a relative’s home north of Seoul after a police autopsy found the baby died because of a long period of malnutrition, the report said. Police arrested the couple on Wednesday, it said.
“I’m sorry to my daughter and hope she doesn’t get sick in heaven,” the father was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
News reports said the girl was born prematurely, weighing 5 pounds (2.25 kilograms), and had spent one month in an incubator.The couple, who met each other through an Internet chat site, was reportedly obsessed with a role-playing game called “Prius Online” in which they nurtured a virtual girl dubbed “Anima.”
