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S Korea child ’starves as parents raise virtual baby’

Posted by Richard On March - 6 - 2010

korea pcA 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.

BBC News - S Korea child ’starves as parents raise virtual baby’.

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