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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/05/korean-girl-starved-online-game ="Girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game"= Mark Tran 2012 Guardian News and Media In Korea in the year 2010, there was a huge incident. Two parents, a 24 year old women and 41 year old man let there 3 month old baby starve to death while they took care of a virtual baby. The parents met in a chat website and later got married. While they were married they had a baby girl. Yet they let her starve while they played a game that raised a virtual baby. They would only stop by ever once and a while and feed it powdered milk. When they were arrested the dad said, "I am sorry for what i did and hope my daughter does not suffer any more in heaven". The daughter died in the month of September after the parents had came home finding her frail body dead, this left the police suspicious to the parents neglecting there child. A few other incidents that were caused from virtual world addiction was a 22 year old Korean man killed his mother for nagging him too much about playing games. After he killed his mom he went to a nearby internet cafe and continued to play the game. Another incident was in 2005 a man in Korea a man died from fatigue after playing star craft for 50 straight hours. He went in to cardiac arrest and later died at the hospital.
 * Habits of Learning and Managing Online Activity: Virtual Worlds**

abcnews.go.com › [|GMA] › [|America's Health] › [|GMA OnCall] =Virtual Reality Game Helps Drug Addicts Recover= ABC good morning America When most drug abusers want to get help, they go to a psychiatrist and go through the same process with every psychiatrist, but a professor at Duke named Zach Rosenthal found a new way to help drug abussers. He created a new treatment were abussers would play virtual world games and be put in a drug enviorment to see how much they crave it and to sya if they cna say no. Now a virtual world is different from real lifer but its a good first step.In my eyes this is a break through in helping drug abussers that will lead to even more break throughs.

Are Virtual Worlds Good For the Soul?
terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/10/are_**virtual**_wor.html [|Lisa Galarneau] on Oct 05, 2006 in [|Academia], [|Lisa G], [|Psychology and Culture], [|Sociology] | [|Permalink] As bad as virtual worlds can be, there also good. Student and her friends statrted playing a game called WOW, and with in a few weeks it actually helped the students. One kid, who lacked in social skills improved a lot since he started playing the game. It also helped eduacational because one kid that had a learning bisability started to improve because of all the reading and writing in the game.