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updates: add bbm: 7CA1B82AA father from South Korea was arrested Monday after reportedly allowing his infant son to starve to death in his apartment as he played online video games for days at nearby internet cafes.
The
22-year-old father, surnamed Chung, has been arrested by the police officers of
the city of Daegu, southeast of Seoul after authorities found a garbage bag
containing the badly decomposed body of his son, according to Hindustan Times.
A CCTV footage
of the father casually fixing his hair while carrying the said garbage bag
inside an elevator has been revealed and aired in different TV stations in
South Korea, bringing shock and anger to citizens across the country.
The incident
was reported just as the debate of whether online games are as addictive as
smoking or drinking was at its peak in the Asian nation. Shortly before the
incident, the ruling conservative party was in the news for pushing the bill to
classify online gaming as being potentially addictive as other vices, such as
cigarette smoking and alcohol.
According to
reports, the infant son’s mother left the city February to work as a factory
worker, leaving the 22-year-old father alone in the city with their child.
However,
Chung, reportedly heavily addicted to video games, failed to provide proper
nourishment to their infant child, opting instead to spend his days inside
internet shops while leaving his infant son to suffer in the house without
food. Allegedly, the father only went home every two or three days to sparingly
feed his son.
According to
official police reports, the father discovered that his son has succumbed to
starvation on March 7 and left the body to rot inside his apartment for another
month until he decided to dispose the corpse of his infant son in a garden one
mile away.
He then
initially reported his baby missing, but soon confessed to disposing the body
of his own infant son.
Online video
games have been a problem in South Korea for years. The country boasts itself
as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. According
to Statista, South Korea’s internet connection is the fastest in the world,
with speeds averaging at 13.3 mbps.
However, their
advancement in the field may have indirectly caused many cases of
gaming-related parental neglect that has been reported to happen in the country
for the past years.
In 2010, a
Korean couple was arrested for starving their real life child to death while
raising a virtual child online.
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Unfortunately people don't need any qualifications, license or psychiatric evaluations to produce a child, once produced they can do pretty much what they like with it away from prying eyes... Witness men who rape or impregnate their daughters, witness people beating their children to death, witness people using their children for money rituals or selling them outright!
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