DS Not To Blame in 10-Year-Old Stabbing
Earlier in the week, whilst combing these untamed series of tubes in search of good gaming news morsels that I might eat and regurgitate to you, my precious chickadees, I came across an article about a 5-year-old boy who reportedly stabbed his 10-year-old sister because the older sister "didn't want to give him her Nintendo DS". I didn't post the article at the time in main part due to the fact that it seemed like one of those "videogames made my children behave like ill-parented ruffians, not the parents" sensationalistic stories.
Well it turns out there was more to the case than met the eye. In a story out of a CSI/Law and Order script, it seems that surgeon who looked at the young girls wounds diagnosed that the younger boy would not have been able to stab the girl so deeply. When the children were questioned further, they finally found out that the mother had actually stab the daughter. When questioned, the mother quickly confessed to her actions citing that she was "upset by the noise made by her children". Wow . . .
So there you go, while the noises the kids made while playing the DS may have aided in driving the mother to such hostility, it was not the central player in this murder mystery, just merely a red herring.
French 5-Year-Old Didn't Stab Sister Over DS, After All [GamePolitics]
PixelPoet
Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 4 March 2009
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Um, unless the DS was holding the knife, covered in blood and grinning maniacally, then it shouldn't be blamed for it either way.
Lmao, funny story. She got pissed, when in the first place they're the one to be blamed because she allowed her children to have that gadget.