This is beyond belief. A couple in South Korea have allegedly allowed their small baby daughter to starve to death because they became obsessed with raising an ‘avatar child’ in a virtual world called Prius Online. According to police reports, the pair, both unemployed, left their daughter at home alone while they spent 12-hour sessions raising a virtual daughter called Anima from an internet café in a suburb of Seoul.
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Beyond belief? There will always be amazing examples of human stupidity; the only thing that has changed is that the cost of bringing that news to you has dropped to the point that everyone can tut-tut over the latest manifestation of it. This only makes headlines because the parents’ obsession is a virtual world instead of something that has been around for a while.