Alexandra V. Tobias, a young mother and casual game aficionado from Florida, is at the center of a tragic murder. The Jacksonville resident pleaded guilty to second degree murder this week, admitting that she'd killed her three-month-old child because he disturbed her while she was trying to play Farmville.
In her confession, Tobias said her baby started crying, interrupting her important game. She shook him, smoked a cigarette to calm down, then shook him again. She says he may have hit his head at some point. I wonder if she finished harvesting her crops?
Tobias could face life in prison. Keep your fingers crossed.
While it is very difficult to find time to play games when you have a three month old child, the fact is, they sleep a lot. If you're creative, you can squeeze in some Farmville and not have to shake anyone. Games really aren't at fault here. I blame the depersonalizing onslaught of late Industrial Capitalism and the inherent unfairness of the American class system... but it could have been errant chemicals in this lady's brain.
I'll bet when anti-game activists talk about murders caused by games, they'll leave this one off the list because it doesn't help the argument. Very few rational people could believe Farmville caused this woman to murder her child, even though she was playing the game pre-murder. Farmville will get a well-deserved pass, but I'll bet if this crime was committed by a man, and he had been playing Slaughterhouse, the media narrative would be very, very different.
Source: Jacksonville.com
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VSG413
This is sad but funny to me because if this was a violent video game such GTA, COD, Halo, L4D, and so on and so forth, the government would be trying to shut this down.
NOOOWAY
I don't believe anyone would bring up this Farmville incident and say that the game caused the mother to go insane and kill her child; but they might use this as an example of how family relationships are destroyed by video games/pc games.
babygirl8573
Wow thats nuts.... i play farmville... and when im angry it helps relax me actually to see cute lil animals... i mean i dont have children but thats besides the point ... 3 months old wow its not like she couldnt get off her fat !*& and give the baby a bottle and put him in the crib... now i could see someone maybe fighting alot if the play mafia wars or maybe even vampire games for the taste of blood... I HOPE SHE EITHER ROTS IN JAIL THEN HELL OR THEY GIVE HER LEATH INJECTION THEN SHE CAN ROT IN HELL AND I HOPE HER NIGHTMARE THERE IS CRYING BABIES AND EVERYONE IN HELL ALWAYS SHAKES HER....
ROOST3R117
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ROOST3R117
Can't we just shoot people for this??? PLease just kill them they do not deserve life!!!!!!!! SHAKE HER UNTIL SHE DIES!
Stefanos
Would you believe that was a statement? :}
Stefanos
So why did poor Jeff get a screen capture of his farm on this story. lol It's people like that who shouldn't have children in the first place, Dr. Nutt was right.
tekhead73
I blame the depersonalizing onslaught of late Industrial Capitalism and the inherent unfairness of the American class system????......You have got to be kidding me. Where did you get such drivel? Leftest politics 101? Progressivism
for dummies? You are telling me that capitalism is to blame for a mentally unstable or drug induced woman killing her child. This seems really ridiculous to me. A lot of you may want to live in the USSA but not me. This is just a case of insanity or intoxication. She deserves to have the entire book threw at her, but bleeding heart liberals who hate capitalism will get her off on insanity plea. That's the country we live in now unfortunately.
duhreetoh
Has noone heard of post partem depression?
Canid117
Tanya Adams: Shake it baby!
Me: Thats just in poor taste Tanya.
jjdaybr
Alexandra V. Tobias, Thanks for killing the little person that was the one to grow up with a love for medical sciences and discovered the cure for AIDS and cancer....Thanks Alex, thanks....
dracardi
this person had some serious mental issues, and farmville? Seriously, I doubt it mattered if it was farmville or a soap opera this was going to happen. Who in their right mind shakes a baby? Thats the one thing everyone should know not to do.
D-Real
In SJ's defense, I don't think he was simply making a joke about a rather unfortunate situation. He was merely emphasizing the pointlessness of the mother's actions and the serious repercussions she will have to face for something that could and should have been easily avoided.
SteveS490
Stephen, why did you joke about this terrible crime? Not that I had much in the first place, but you lost all of my respect.
MJimiD
Evil effing retard. That's horrible.
jlcobby2010
stupid ass should be beaten and tourtered until she dies. How you could do that to your child is beyond me, i have a five month old son he cries when im playing my fb games...yeah its a bummer sometimes cuz i would like to sit and just relax but jesus christ the kid cant help it. they cry for a reason. Im not gonna effin kill my son becasue he innteruppted my fb time...hes a hell lot more important than some social network!! This makes me sick to my stomach!!! Another helpless child is dead because of some stupid ass...
kats3sons
seriously?? You are blaming CAPITALISM for a self absorbed piece of human debris? A murdering selfish bitch is just that.... it has nothing to do with Capitalism. If she lived in Russia or China you think she would be nicer to her offspring? I say lock her up for life so she can't procreate anymore and stop the chain of IDIOTS with her.
SesshomaruSuma
Whats Next?
World of Warcraft made me know how to deliver a Baby! TONIGHT @ 10!
Maidenhead
Christ.
Just ban this game off Facebook, and anything like it. It's becoming so horribly addictive it's taking the life of innocent children and adults alike and just throwing them down the toilet.
Sanguiluna
I just want to say thank you to Mr. Johnson on making an excellent and valid point at the end of his article. I know this may sound harsh, but maybe we NEEDED an incident to occur; maybe the media needed for something like this to happen so they can finally see the utter foolhardiness in always pointing the finger at the gaming industry for the crimes of its consumers. They won't dare give Farmville the GTA or Mortal Kombat treatment because even they know they'd be laughed into the ground by the public if they did.
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