A Korean couple in their 20s, left their four-month old daughter at home while they visited a nearby cyber-cafe to play World of Warcraft.On May 24th, the 29 year old husband and his wife put their daughter into a bedroom of their house while they visited their local PC cafe at 4:00 p.m. approximately, to play World of Warcraft. As they were engulfed in the online addiction, time passed quickly and when they returned home at 9:00 p.m., they found their daughter lying on her stomach, dead of suffocation.
The couple told police:
We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day.
Police said an investigation turned up that the couple, who wed last year, used to play "World of Warcraft" whenever they had time.
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."
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