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Parents obsessed with playing Dungeons & Dragons, leave babies to starve
They were too busy playing video games
By Dan Freeman, GameRush Entertainment
Posted July 15, 2007
U.S. authorities say a couple from Reno, Nevada was so obsessed with playing video games online that they left their babies to starve.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the parents have now pleaded guilty to child neglect after their 22-month-old boy and 11-month-old girl were found severely malnourished and close to death.
The girl, weighing just 10 pounds, reportedly had to have her head shaved because it was matted with cat urine. She also suffered from a mouth infection, dry skin, and severe dehydration. Her brother was treated for starvation, a genital infection, and, due to lack of muscle development, difficulty walking.
The children are now doing well and regaining weight in foster care. Their parents, Michael Straw, 25, and Iana Straw, 23, now face up to 12 years in prison. Prosecutors say the couple was too distracted playing Dungeons & Dragons online to give their children proper care.
“They had food, they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games,” said Kelli Ann Viloria, a public prosecutor.
Straw is an unemployed cashier and his wife does warehouse work for a staffing agency. The couple reportedly spent a $50,000 inheritance on computer equipment and a plasma television.
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gamerush.zoomshare.com/files/...ews.htm
Parents obsessed with playing Dungeons & Dragons, leave babies to starve
They were too busy playing video games
By Dan Freeman, GameRush Entertainment
Posted July 15, 2007
U.S. authorities say a couple from Reno, Nevada was so obsessed with playing video games online that they left their babies to starve.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the parents have now pleaded guilty to child neglect after their 22-month-old boy and 11-month-old girl were found severely malnourished and close to death.
The girl, weighing just 10 pounds, reportedly had to have her head shaved because it was matted with cat urine. She also suffered from a mouth infection, dry skin, and severe dehydration. Her brother was treated for starvation, a genital infection, and, due to lack of muscle development, difficulty walking.
The children are now doing well and regaining weight in foster care. Their parents, Michael Straw, 25, and Iana Straw, 23, now face up to 12 years in prison. Prosecutors say the couple was too distracted playing Dungeons & Dragons online to give their children proper care.
“They had food, they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games,” said Kelli Ann Viloria, a public prosecutor.
Straw is an unemployed cashier and his wife does warehouse work for a staffing agency. The couple reportedly spent a $50,000 inheritance on computer equipment and a plasma television.
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Re: Reno Couple Neglect Children to Play D&D Online
Sun, August 12, 2007 - 12:40 PMGaming is addictive, be it analog or computerized.
Hard to game for 18hrs/day face to face every day, but I've heard of major World of Warcraft 'addictions'.
I haven't played any of those MOORPG's b/c my concern is I'll give up too much of my life.
Friends that I have who play have put in ~ 1 month or so of ONLINE TIME on WOW, and another friend confided in me that he played online RPG's like Everquest ... a minimum of 4 hours a day for the last 4 years.
Now that's a WOW to me!!!!!
Good revenue model -- $15/month addiction, no harm done outside of your small environment, however you may neglect all of your loved ones and your responsibilities!
THE MATRIX -- in the movie, the machines forced us into it. But in reality, most people want to live in it already!
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Re: Reno Couple Neglect Children to Play D&D Online
Sun, October 7, 2007 - 7:50 PMUltimately, it doesn't matter what the obssession is. A game, drugs, whatever. Those people didn't really want to be parents that they didn't prioritize their children and taking care of them. With all the birth control options out there, it just makes it all the more tragic that people would have the children and then let them die horribly of neglect like that.
