A 22-year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida, has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of… FarmVille.
Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month-old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby, had a cigarette to calm herself down, then shook him again. It’s believed he “may have hit his head during the shaking”.
Dylan’s death was classified as second-degree murder, a charge that carries the possibility of a life sentence in prison.
Jacksonville mum who shook baby for interrupting computer game pleads to murder [Florida Times-Union]
Republished from Kotaku
Matt
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 6:59 AMYupp… Must be all those ‘violent’ games causing this…
Zac
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 10:58 AMI’m sorry…. OMG WTF!!!!
McBain
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 1:30 PMMore prof that people need to be sterilised at birth and apply for license to breed…
Seriously.. Has anyone watched the movie ‘Idiocracy’? It’s funny, but sadly true.. We are all doomed due to the abundant reproduction of stupid people.. :(
McBain
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM*proof
Stefan
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 7:33 PMhaha true dat :P, how’s she going to survive in prision with out farmville?
Leo W'ski
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 2:16 PMModel citizen.
Bruce
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 5:33 PMOh yeah. Blame FarmVille of course! Gees.
Dave
Friday, October 29, 2010 at 7:17 PMThe fact that Farmville or any computer game gets attached to these kinds of news articles is purely for sensationalism. She didn’t kill the baby because it interrupted her Farmville session, she killed it because she’s a failed human being. If this happened while she was watching TV or doing dishes for instance, it suddenly would be a whole lot less newsworthy.
Check out the comments on the linked original article to see some of the ignorance that people still have towards video games. It just baffles me.
Dave
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 9:11 AMSad to think that the girl didn’t get assistance with her mental state before this happened. It’s obvious that she was not handling her situation.