Addicts online matching let her son die

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Ciberjuego obsession "killed" her son

The South Korean police said a couple whose son died three years of age due to malnutrition was addicted to a game on the Internet dedicated to caring for a virtual girl.

The couple, now under arrest after being given the run-feeding the child only once a day during a break while twelve hours spent playing online in an Internet cafe, authorities said.

The man, 41 years old, and the woman, 25, had been "obsessed" with bringing up a virtual girl in the game called Anima Online Prius while neglecting his own son, according to police.

Police spokesman Chung Jin-won said that the couple had "lost the will to live after losing their jobs."

The game became a way to "escape reality", he added.

Authorities arrested the couple in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, the capital, earlier in the week.

The son of detainees died five months ago and the autopsy showed cause of death as a long period of malnutrition.

After reporting the child's death the couple fled.

Addiction

BBC correspondents indicate that in South Korea have been sporadically reported cases of deaths related to addiction to Internet games.

In one such case, a man aged 28 died after five days playing with few interruptions.

South Korea, on the other hand, has been the site of the World Cyber ​​Games.

Speaking to the BBC Mark Griffiths, a psychologist and author of several studies on online games, said "the ciberjuegos addiction affects a small minority who develop symptoms of traditional addictions."

But unlike these traditional addictions, there's little help available for those suffering from addiction to Internet games, said the specialist.

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