A couple addicted to computer games let their real life baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, cops said today.
The 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.
Cops say the couple had become obsessed with living online and neglected their real lives.
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.
Suspicious
Dad Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and mum Choi Mi-sun, 25, called the emergency services when they returned from one online session and found their daughter dead.
They told police: "We found she had passed away when we woke up in the morning."
But cops became suspicious about how severely dehydrated the tot 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."
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