A Korean couple are facing potential criminal charges after leaving their four-month old daughter home alone while they played World of Warcraft for five hours at a nearby Internet café.

Time flew by as the couple lost themselves in the game, and when they returned home at 9:00 p.m., their daughter was lying on her stomach, dead of suffocation.

The couple would play the game whenever they had free time. This session was meant to only last an hour or two, but apparently "the game took longer that day."

It appears that there was a simple solution to this WoW addiction/lack of childcare problem:

Police said, "It's unfortunate, because the tragedy could have been averted if the couple had just left their daughter with Yu's mother-in-law, who lived upstairs from them... We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death."

Given the recent incident in Australia, where four children were killed in a house fire while their parents and babysitter drank at a nearby pub, one has to ask: How are teenagers making their living if no one's hiring babysitters any more?

robosagogo

State College, PA

September 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:09 PM

I'm sorry, I don't know anything about infants. Was the cause of suffocation not given or do infants suffocate for no reason sometimes?

Projecta119

Stewartstown, PA

January 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:12 PM

i suffocate infants for no reason sometimes....

desidia

Reunion

September 2002

JUN 16, 2005 01:12 PM

the babysitter went drinking with the parents? doesn't that cease to make her/him the sitter?

magilla

Congo

May 2003

JUN 16, 2005 01:14 PM

I find no amusement or education in this It's disgusting pathos.

Crim

HOPEFUL

Portland, OR

JUN 16, 2005 01:15 PM

The couple would play the game whenever they had free time. This session was meant to only last an hour or two, but apparently "the game took longer that day."

Fuckin Upper Blackrock Spire......

Happyboy

Berkeley, CA

December 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:31 PM

Some of this stuff is so stupid, it sounds made up

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:35 PM

robosagogo said:
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about infants. Was the cause of suffocation not given or do infants suffocate for no reason sometimes?

Does it make any difference? Leaving a four month old child alone is not acceptable.

For what it's worth: Babies drop dead from SIDS, and the causes are not understood. Maybe there's a translation difficulty.

robosagogo

State College, PA

September 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:38 PM

demetrius_z said:

robosagogo said:
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about infants. Was the cause of suffocation not given or do infants suffocate for no reason sometimes?

Yeah it's irresponsible however you look at it, but I'd still like to know what, if anything, they could've done to prevent this from happening if they had been home. Sudden Infant Death doesn't exactly sound like something that anyone can do anything about.

dirtyground

Chicago, IL

August 2003

JUN 16, 2005 01:39 PM

I FUCKING HATE NERDS.

now youre KILLING people intraveneously.

sadisticmika

I'm lost

July 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:45 PM

Why am I not shocked that this happened in Korea... those guys OWN the Starcraft ladder.

edit: "The tradgedy could have been averted had they not been such nerds."

[Edited on Jun 16, 2005 by sadisticmika]

spanked

Bartlesville, OK

November 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:56 PM

I knew WoW was trouble...i stopped playing after the first month....

DireChocobo

Fairburn, GA

July 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:56 PM

Damn gold farmers!

I kid, I kid.

Well...no, I don't.

But now, I am fearful, as my roomate is now being bested by WoW addicts. His WoW addiction is pretty fucking pathetic, but now he has to kill somone to meat his quota. GREAT! I'm going to have to fight that fucker to the death now or something. A fight to the death will either cause me to be dead, or cause me to lose $450 a month in extra income.

Suck.

Edity: Actually, to be serious. To my understanding, this happens more than you'd think. I've heard of numerous cases of people leaving their child unattended while they were playing EQ, and the child dying due to suffocation, or being locked in the car.

Locked in the freakin car...

Pa-thatic.

[Edited on Jun 16, 2005 4:58PM]

Lemonkid

Canada

May 2003

JUN 16, 2005 01:56 PM

Ophelia said:one has to ask: How are teenagers making their living if no one's hiring babysitters any more?

Drug deals and selling built up WoW characters.

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

JUN 16, 2005 01:56 PM

Hepburn said:
I FUCKING HATE NERDS.

He said to his internet buddies on an internet messageboard on the INTERNET.

ChezGeek

Port Orchard, WA

January 2004

JUN 16, 2005 02:09 PM

Projecta119 said:
i suffocate infants for no reason sometimes....

someone should suffocate you

euphoric_hell

Twin Falls, ID

December 2004

JUN 16, 2005 02:47 PM

Sigh...WTF is wrong with these people?!?! I dont care if it was SIDS or something else. They should of been there with their kid bottom line. I think someone should suffocate them. Stupid ass people

abracadabra

Seattle, WA

April 2004

JUN 16, 2005 03:19 PM

who the fuck leaves a 4 month old alone???..unbelievable

MisterSatan

Portland, OR

August 2002

JUN 16, 2005 03:24 PM

Hey, some people shouldn't fucking have children in the first place, you know?

d20

San Francisco, CA

September 2003

JUN 16, 2005 03:48 PM

Crim said:

The couple would play the game whenever they had free time. This session was meant to only last an hour or two, but apparently "the game took longer that day."

Fuckin Upper Blackrock Spire......

yeah it would have been a clean run, but one of their randoms was Leeroy.

dirtyground

Chicago, IL

August 2003

JUN 16, 2005 04:14 PM

TedKoppel said:

Hepburn said:
I FUCKING HATE NERDS.

He said to his internet buddies on an internet messageboard on the INTERNET.

touche. but its porn.

MisterGraves

Portland, OR

November 2003

JUN 16, 2005 04:16 PM

Hepburn said:

TedKoppel said:

Hepburn said:
I FUCKING HATE NERDS.

He said to his internet buddies on an internet messageboard on the INTERNET.

touche. but its porn.

AND NERDS HATE PORN.

Zofia

Australia

June 2004

JUN 16, 2005 04:26 PM

Well, thank GOD I only got addicted to Morrowind.

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

JUN 16, 2005 04:33 PM

robosagogo said:
I'm sorry, I don't know anything about infants. Was the cause of suffocation not given or do infants suffocate for no reason sometimes?

Well, the article says she was found on her stomach. It's possible she rolled over and ended up with her face smooshed in her blankets or a pillow and couldn't roll away enough to breathe. It happens.

Gwendolyn

SUICIDEGIRL

Indiana, USA

JUN 16, 2005 04:33 PM

Hepburn said:
I FUCKING HATE NERDS.

now youre KILLING people intraveneously.

Nerds are killing people by administering drugs into their veins?

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