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I know this has no similarities to the Wii (well guess it could like manhunt 2, i could see some murders break out sooner or later.)
heres the link http://wii.qj.net/23-years-to-life-sentenced-to-Halo-Killer-Daniel-Petric/pg/49/aid/132229
last year or sometime there was 2 people who killed this 7 year old from playing Mortal Kombat.
heres the link to that story http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/20/teens-held-girls-mortal-kombat-death/
Guess some people don't know the difference between real violence.
Halo Killer - Image 1"Halo Killer" Daniel Petric was found guilty of shooting his parents, in the event killing his 43-year-old mother, back in September 2007 for keeping him from playing Halo 3, and was sentenced to serve 23 years in prison. Judge James Burge of Lorain County, Ohia set down the ruling yesterday, despite the insanity plea put forth by the defense.
Daniel's lawyer, James Kersey, was reported to have argued that it was because of his video game addiction which led him to plan the shooting of his parents that fateful eve.
"The playing of the video games and the reality of shooting somebody in his case was blinded; it was merged. He had no thoughts during this process. During this time, he was blinded that his parents might be dead; that they might never come back."
While the judge did not find the defense's evidence sufficient to rule in favor of the insanity plea, he did agree that Petric does suffer from a "serious defect of the mind" and that his videogame addiction played a crucial role in his committed crime.
This Court's opinion is that we don't know enough about these video games. In this particular case, not so much the violence of the game because I believe in the Halo 3, what it amounts to is a contest to see who can shoot the most aliens who attack.
It's my firm belief that after a while the same physiological responses occur that occur in the ingestion of some drugs. And I believe that an addiction to these games can do the same thing. The dopamine surge, the stimulation of the nucleus accumbens - the same as an addiction. Such that when you stop, your brain won't stand for it.
The other dangerous thing about these games, in my opinion, is that when these changes occur, they occur in an environment that is delusional. Because you can shoot these aliens, and they're there again the next day. You have to shoot them again. And I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea, at the time he hatched this plot, that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever.
Petric's father, the surviving victim of the shooting, were there to support his son all throughout, pleading with the judge for some leniency considering that he was only 16 when the crime was committed. This plea was acknowledged by the judge and so Daniel would be eligible for parole by 2032 instead of serving for life.
heres the link http://wii.qj.net/23-years-to-life-sentenced-to-Halo-Killer-Daniel-Petric/pg/49/aid/132229
last year or sometime there was 2 people who killed this 7 year old from playing Mortal Kombat.
Two teenagers believed to be imitating the Mortal Kombat video game have been arrested and charged in the death of a 7-year- old Johnstown girl - a sister of one of the suspects.
Lamar Roberts, 17, of Westminster, and Heather Trujillo, 16, of Johnstown, were being held on $100,000 bail each at the Weld County Jail on Wednesday.
They were arrested Tuesday night after charges formally were filed that day by the Weld County District Attorney's Office.
Each faces one count of child abuse resulting in death, a Class 2 felony. If convicted, the sentence can range from 16 to 48 years.
Roberts and Trujillo are being charged as adults. They are scheduled to make their first appearance in court Friday.
The teens were baby-sitting Trujillo's sister, Zoe Garcia, on Dec. 6 while the sisters' mother was at work.
They began wrestling and enacting a game of Mortal Kombat, court affidavits say. Zoe lost consciousness after being hit, kicked and body-slammed to the floor.
The documents say Trujillo told police she was on top of her sister "holding her arms down with her legs while tapping on her chest like a typewriter when the victim passed out." Roberts was not wrestling but was acting "as the referee," the affidavits say.
Trujillo said she sent Zoe to bed after she regained consciousness. When she checked on her about 15 minutes later, she was not breathing. Trujillo and Roberts tried to revive the girl in the shower and attempted CPR before calling the mother and then 911.
In an interview later at police headquarters, Trujillo said she tripped Zoe, "punched her in the stomach, karate chopped her lower arms, punched and pinched the victim's thighs, kicked her in the shins, slapped her stomach and buttocks and poked at the victim's chest."
A witness quoted in an affidavit said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl and that his hands were "lethal weapons."
The witness said Roberts performed a back kick and the girl didn't get up. He said he and Trujillo "cracked an egg in her mouth . . . in an attempt to see if she was messing around with them" by faking unconsciousness.
The witness said she asked Roberts whether Zoe had asked them to stop. "Yeah, she told me to stop," he said. Asked why he didn't stop, he said, "I don't know; I was drunk."
Zoe was not breathing when police arrived. She died at North Colorado Medical Center.
The Greeley Tribune contributed to this report.
Violent video games have been around almost as long as video games themselves.
Video games such as Mortal Kom bat, Doom and Grand Theft Auto, which allow players to act out brutal violence, have sparked a heated debate regarding their effects on children.
In the case of teens Heather Maria Trujillo, 16, and Lamar Roberts, 17, they may have acted out the violence, hitting and kicking Heather's 7-year-old sister, Zoe Garcia, last week in a game they called Mortal Kombat.
In 2000, the American Psychological Association released a report that specifically cited Mortal Kombat as a video game that can increase a person's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior.
Mortal Kombat is a video game, created by Midway, that allows players to choose a character and fight to the death using a variety of moves and weapons. Since the game's inception in 1991, there has been opposition to the animated violence and blood.
The report, published in the APA Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, stated violent video games may be more harmful than violent TV and movies because they are interactive, engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor.
heres the link to that story http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/20/teens-held-girls-mortal-kombat-death/
Guess some people don't know the difference between real violence.
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