A mother killed her 3-month old son because of Facebook????

Philippines
October 31, 2010 1:53am CST
I read the news on msnbc about a mother who shook her son so hard that he hit his head on the computer and died. She got frustrated because her son wouldn't stop crying while she was playing Farmville on Facebook. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39890549/ns/local_news-jacksonville_fl/ This is really unfortunate and it angers me because I'm a mother myself. I have a 1-month old child and I'm also in front of my computer often because of my job, but I wouldn't do that... Still, I'm in no position to be a judge of character... What's your take on this?
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27 responses
• United States
2 Nov 10
This is the problem with people who are fascinated with make believe and could care less or are bothered by real life. What a wonderful society we've turned out to be. Of course, there is a cure, turn off your stupid television and log off your computer and gasp, go outside and clear your head with a walk. A judge of character, what else do we have to go on?
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• India
1 Nov 10
Thank you so much for sharing.It is too bad, just wonder how a mother can be so brutal and kill her THREE MONTH young son, might be intoxicated lol Professor. . Cheers God bless you.
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• Philippines
2 Nov 10
I've been wondering this whole time. Where's the baby daddy?
@dodo19 (47050)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
1 Nov 10
Yes, I have heard about this. This is very sad to see. My husband was the one who noticed this article and he drew me to it. We were both very shocked that something like that could happen. It's really unfortunate to see this kind of behaviour over a game. It's just a game.
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• United States
31 Oct 10
Being a mother and knowing that you never shake a baby I can say I hope that this woman gets whats coming to her when she gets in prison. How could you kill your own baby like that. Just sick and wrong. When I hear about things like this I want to take the parents and violently shake them till they either die or suffer brain damage. Its just not fair. Poor little baby did not deserve that.
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• Philippines
31 Oct 10
I was angered when I read it.I feel like its unforgivable...
@saphrina (31552)
• South Africa
31 Oct 10
Hi sweetie. I honestly hope they hang her or something. Maybe it is time, facebook make an improvement and get rid of that freaking game. TATA.
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• Philippines
1 Nov 10
I don't think the problem is with the game, its the player.
@Portia08 (10)
• Philippines
31 Oct 10
No one's too certain what really happened there.. either she's so into playing Farmville or she's having any type of depression or something. Still, that is not a reason to harm your child.. but I'm sure she feels very, very sorry over what happened.. What kind of mother would intentionally harm her own child right?
• United States
31 Oct 10
Thank you for sharing this information. Some of this stuff just goes by unnoticed and nobody seems to care as they go through their normal lives. This is really sad. I have no idea how facebook is worth the life of a child. I mean, I love facebook and all, but I hate the farmville game, it seems pointless to me to kill a child over it.
@34momma (13882)
• United States
1 Nov 10
Wow now that is just some crazy stuff right there! these young woman has ruined her life is so many ways. to have the knowledge of killing your own child on your mind forever, and now spending what just migh be the rest of her life in jail. What a shame!!! stuff like this happens way to often and it's just a shame
@dloveli (4366)
• United States
1 Nov 10
That is the most HORRIFIC thing I have ever heard. I didnt know anything about it until now. She is an Idiot from the get go. And a terrible mother on top of it! I dont think this was the intention of the facebook creators. Its sad to see how human beings took something that could be so fun, enlightening, and helpful and turned it into something so hateful, ugly, and absolutely ridiculous. Now that the damage is done people tend to play into it. Obviously she played into it way tooooo much. She let it overcome her to the point where she was controlled by facebook and its following.So much so that she was filled with rage at the fact that this innocent child was interrupting her facebook time. HOW DARE HE? She lost it and shook him so hard that it killed him. What was she thinking? I would be so embarassed if that was me. THe fact that I let some social website infiltrate my life to the point where I killed the love of my life. Shame on her. dl
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@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
1 Nov 10
That is just crazy. I'm not a mother, but that is something that I could never do to my child. She will have to live with the fact for the rest of her life, that she killed her 3 month old baby over a computer game. This is ridiculous.
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@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
1 Nov 10
Oh my gosh...really? That is just horrible, for a baby to die just because of FB. Even thouh how frustrated the mother was, there is no way to do that to a child... It's just so sad how people can be, what people do because of computer games these days.. I hope that mom learned her lesson
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1 Nov 10
oh my god this is really ridiculous. I say that it is only because of farmville she did that. i've also experienced that. it is an addict game. i never feel like studying my syllabus because of that game.
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@kayevin (220)
• Philippines
31 Oct 10
Is this true??Oh what an unfortunate event again.I hope this awill not happen again in the future.
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@misterMR (796)
• Philippines
1 Nov 10
I never heard of this until you showed the link. Terrible. I wonder what she was thinking. It's sad to hear about these kind of news.
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@AnggaYP (18)
• Indonesia
1 Nov 10
really..?? i think its bad..very bad for internet user impact.
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• Philippines
31 Oct 10
It just speak that games could also be dangerous when it turn to obssesion. True farmville i s quite addicting,that mozt of the playerz tends to react in a very unexplainable manner...If you only can see how players bad mouthing other players for just failing to send gifts.
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@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
31 Oct 10
Oh my God! This is so shock and I am so pity for both the mother and the baby. The mother now must be in heart pain and regret on what she has done. I believe she doesn't mean to kill her baby. This could be just an accident. She just didn't know a small baby can easily be hurt especially their head and the injury may make them killed. I really hope this kind of accident don't happen again.
@mlotta (218)
• Managua, Nicaragua
31 Oct 10
Whoa! Wow! I can't believe that a woman would kill her own son (especially a 3-month old baby) just because of some fun game (which actually is fun (FarmVille) and I haven't tried it). that goes to show that you can't be upset over something that should've been prevented. The added burden of not having her mom must've destroyed her emotionally. People shouldn't get killed over an accident that could've been easily prevented. Maybe if she would've taken her baby crying as a normal thing when babies are tired or hungry, then she wouldn't have killed her son, and gone to prison in the first place. This could've been prevented It really shocks and angers me that a mother, just going through the starting point of her adulthood, would end her own freedom for 25-50 years.
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• Portugal
31 Oct 10
that woman killed her kid by accident bcs hit hid head bcs was frustrated bcs of farmville game? im chocked also. thats terrible she shouldnt had hit her son but also im sure that she is feeling too bad right now. my god poor kid and also i kinda feel sorry for her bcs for sure she didnt mean to kill her son and now she lost him. for sure she wont play farmville ever again. what a strange reason for someone to die :(
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• Yemen
31 Oct 10
I don't know why someone can do that to their own child.Sometimes we loose temper but we can control ourselves for doing such thing right?Maybe she hate her son because she doesn't really want to be a mom at her age that's why she got killed her son without thinking.But still, it's unacceptable!She should be punish the same way she did to her son.25-50 yrs imprisonment is not enough.
• Mauritius
31 Oct 10
I read about it also and i thought it was a joke at first but it's NOT!!! I was really shaken.. I mean, how can a game be more important than your baby??
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