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While raising online child, South Korean couple allow real-life daughter to die
Brunei News.Net
Saturday 6th March, 2010
In an ironic tragedy, a South Korean couple has been arrested for allowing their baby daughter to starve to death when they become so wrapped up in an online game, which simulated child-rearing, that they neglected to feed her properly.
The man, 41, and his wife, 25, were arrested Thursday, five months after the death of their daughter, who was just three months old, according to an investigator in Suweon, a city south of Seoul, who spoke with the AFP.
They had been on the run since the death of their daughter.
An autopsy after her death showed that she had died of a prolonged period of malnutrition.
Their real-life daughter had been born premature, and while the couple spent hours at an internet café raising an online child, their real-life daughter was fed just once every 12 hours.
"The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life because they didn't have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby," Chung Jin-Won, a police officer, told the Yonhap news agency.