This is so bizzare

S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby'


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.

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

 

That's sad.

 

I hope the parents are punished to the maximum. That is horrible.

 

http://global.netmarble.com/game/gameIntro/prius.asp

Prius Online is just another Korean MMORPG. Fuckin pathetic.

 

Some guy killed himself a few years back after his pet fish died.

 

holy shit, that baby got fed twice every 24 hours! i'm no baby expert but arent they suppose to eat pretty much constantly? hope the parents get put down (although i doubt they will)