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Xbox Baby-Killer

By Rachel Plotnick

When Microsoft Corporation came out with the Xbox they most assuredly wanted, of course, its users to become enthralled with their video games system. However, they didn?t expect users of the system to become so engrossed in the video games that they would lose all sense of parental judgment and control. But that?s what apparently happened when one man, who spent several hours each day playing video games, became enraged when his 17-month-old daughter pulled his Xbox down onto the floor. According to the prosecutor, 27-year-old Tyrone Spellman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who also answers to the name Anwar Salahuddin, played video games six to seven hours per day. On the day in question in September 2006, while the child?s pregnant mother, 21-year-old Mia Turman, slept in another room, the child, Alayiah, pulled at the cords to the Xbox while her father played a video game, eventually causing the game console to fall...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).