Korean couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child

Published: 2:23PM GMT 05 March 2010

The integrate had turn spooky with the online diversion Prius

Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and his partner Choi Mi-sun, 25, fed their three-month-old baby usually on visits home in between 12-hour sessions at a community internet cafe, where they were raising an avatar daughter in a Second-Life-style diversion called Prius online, military said.

Leaving their genuine daughter at their home in a suburb of Seoul to deflect for herself, the pair, who were unemployed, outlayed hours role-playing in the practical being game, that allows users to select a career and friends, extenuation them brood as a prerogative for flitting a sure level.

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The span became spooky with nurturing their practical daughter, called Anima, but not asked their genuine daughter, who was not named.

Eventually, the integrate returned home after one 12-hour event in Sep to find the kid passed and called police. The span were arrested on Friday after an post-mortem showed that the baby died from enlarged malnutrition.

"The integrate seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life, since they didn"t have jobs and gave bieing born to a beforehand baby," Chung Jin-won, a military military officer in Suwon, the Seoul suburb, told the Yonhap headlines agency.

"They indulged themselves in the online diversion of raising a practical impression so as to shun from reality, that led to the genocide of their genuine baby."