FarmVille Interruption Cited in Babys Murder 

[img_r]http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/farmvillemom.jpg[/img_r]A 22-year-old mother from Jacksonville, Florida, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for shaking her 3-month-old son to death after his crying interrupted her FarmVille game.

The mother, Alexandra V. Tobias, was arrested in January and declared her plea on Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud, The Florida Times-Union reports.

She told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself, and proceeded to shake him again. The baby may have hit his head during one of the two shakings, she said.

FarmVille, named one of the worst inventions in recent decades by Time magazine, has more than 60 million members, most of whom access the game through Facebook. Some players have found it so addicting that theyve lost their jobs and racked up debts north of $1,000.

Needless to say, it is Ms. Tobias and not the game itself that is responsible for the death of her 3-month-old son. This is not the first time that a virtual game has led to murder; in 2009, 28-year-old Joseph Johnson of Chicago was charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting his companion in the head while playing an Xbox game.

PC, that's because you are not weak minded.Look at the picture of the woman.......if you look into her eyes, you can see the back of her head.

But seriously, if this was the kind of "mother" the kid would have had, maybe the child is better off where he is now then having to spend a lifetime with THAT as your "mother".
I bet she goes out and gets knocked up again, and has another kid.
A "poster girl" for sterilization if i ever saw one.

"Cheesey" wrote:

I don't know what it is. But like Formo said, not surprising. "Games" have lead to these kinds of things for quite some time. "Dungeons and Dragons" seemed to have started it, and it has snowballed from there.
You never heard this kind of stuff happening from "Monopoly".
Weak minds don't seem to need much to lead them down the path of destruction.

"Cheesey" wrote:

Games, Music, Movies, etc do not lead to violence. How we raise our children to respond to certain situations does. Teach your kid said activities are not life important and they won't feel to be as such to them.

It falls on the parents and it really bothers me so many people make excuses.

"Zero2Cool" wrote: