Parents play World of Warcraft as child dies

Child, left alone, dies whilst parents play World of Warcraft at an internet café.

A child has died after being left home alone while her parents went to the local internet cafè to play World of Warcraft. The Korean husband and wife have been arrested after leaving the four month old child alone for five hours. When they returned the baby had died of suffocation after turning onto her stomach.

The parents are reported to have said: "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day."

"It's unfortunate, because the tragedy could have been averted if the couple had just left their daughter with Yu's mother-in-law, who lived upstairs from them," said police. "We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death."