Police said a Korean couple spent up to12 hours a day at internet cafes, leaving their three-month-old daughter home alone at their apartment in Suwon, South Korea.
Police said the couple became obsessed with living online and neglected their real lives, The Sun reports.
They raised an avatar baby through their profiles on a Second Life-style game called PRIUS, while their real daughter was given just one bottle of milk a day.
Father-of-the-year, Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and mom-extraordinaire, Choi Mi-sun, 25, called the emergency services when they returned from one online session in September last year and found their daughter dead.
"We found she had passed away when we woke up in the morning," they said.
But cops became suspicious about how severely dehydrated the baby was.
A spokesman for the National Scientific Criminal and Investigation Laboratory, which carried out an autopsy on the girl, said, "she appears to have starved to death because she was not fed for such a long period of time."
Authorities caught up with them Tuesday and charged them with child abuse and neglect.
"Due to our sense of guilt, we have not been to a PC gaming room over these five months," they said.
WOW! Five months? That's great. You mean you haven't been lured back to your second-life to nurture your Avatar child while real flesh and blood dies in the other room? You guys are so selfless. Your sacrifice is Christ like...truly unparalleled.
By the way, online games are massively popular in South Korea. So popular in fact, a 28-year-old man recently dropped dead after playing his favorite game, Starcraft, for 50 hours non-stop without eating or drinking. Thank God that happened. I couldn't sleep tonight knowing someone that stupid might talk to me tomorrow.
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