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RENO, Nev. - A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect.

The children of Michael and Iana Straw, a boy age 22 months and a girl age 11 months, were severely malnourished and near death last month when doctors saw them after social workers took them to a hospital, authorities said. Both children are doing well and gaining weight in foster care, prosecutor Kelli Ann Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Michael Straw, 25, and Iana Straw, 23, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts each of child neglect. Each faces a maximum 12-year prison sentence.

Viloria said the Reno couple were too distracted by online video games, mainly the fantasy role-playing "Dungeons & Dragons" series, to give their children proper care.

"They had food; they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games," Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Police said hospital staff had to shave the head of the girl because her hair was matted with cat urine. The 10-pound girl also had a mouth infection, dry skin and severe dehydration.

Her brother had to be treated for starvation and a genital infection. His lack of muscle development caused him difficulty in walking, investigators said.

The Straws have been given public defenders. Jeremy Bosler, head of the county public defender's office, declined to comment to The Associated Press on Saturday.

Michael Straw is an unemployed cashier, and his wife worked for a temporary staffing agency doing warehouse work, according to court records. He received a $50,000 inheritance that he spent on computer equipment and a large plasma television, authorities said.

While child abuse because of drug addiction is common, abuse rooted in video game addiction is rare, Viloria said.

Last month, experts at an American Medical Association meeting backed away from a proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder, saying it had to be studied further. Some said the issue is like alcoholism, while others said there was no concrete evidence it's a psychological disease.

Patrick Killen, spokesman for Nevada Child Abuse Prevention, said video game addiction's correlation to child abuse is "a new spin on an old problem."

"As we become more technologically advanced, there's more distractions," Killen said. "It's easy for someone to get addicted to something and neglect their children. Whether it's video games or meth, it's a serious issue, and (we) need to become more aware of it."
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Personally, I don't care if some lab coat decides to label this a "mental deficiency" or not. Hell, I ain't no doctor and I can tell these wastes of DNA are mentally deficient. Anybody who could act like this is useless in any society except a controlled one.

Our boy inherits $50K. Yeehaw. Pay your bills, put a ton in the bank or down on a house, and yeah, play with a little of it. Nobody would have a problem with that. But no, instead you decide to become Margoth, King of Dracuvania or whatever and blow the wad on useless toys. Your beaming bride, ever by your side, probably doesn't have enough sense to object, so away we go on our widdle adventure. Two kids, 11 months apart...has anybody 'splained to you two cretins what CAUSES kids to happen anyway? Inserting tab A into slot B repeatedly might have something to do with it there Mongol warrior.

At least one of them, or possibly a concerned relative, had sense enough to put food in the house. I guess our chaotic stupid heroes here were counting on some spell to put the food into the kids. Throw in some nasty assed cats and likely an overflowing litterbox and the castle is complete. Can you imagine how many empty stacked up pizza delivery boxes were in this place? Cuz Lord knows Conan and LillieFaire here can't be bothered to actually stop playing long enough to COOK or anything.

Off with their damn heads.
 
I could understand probably. a little better, if they were druggies or something,
but not this.

Nope, people like this definitely have no business even being 'able' to have kids.
 
8th amendment:
Punishments completely forbidden
In Wilkerson v. Utah (1878, pertaining to methods of capital punishment), the Supreme Court commented that drawing and quartering, public dissecting, burning alive and disemboweling would constitute cruel and unusual punishment while determining that death by firing squad was as legitimate as the common method of that time, hanging.

Because it is the needless infliction of pain, torture is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

The Court held in the case Trop v. Dulles (1958) that punishing a natural born citizen for a crime by taking away his citizenship is unconstitutionally excessive, being "more primitive than torture" because it involved the "total destruction of the individual's status in organized society".
(now we grant it to illegals?)

In Robinson v. California (1962), the Court decided, 6-2, that a California law authorizing a 90-day jail sentence for "be[ing] addicted to the use of narcotics" violated the Eighth Amendment, as narcotics addiction "is apparently an illness", and California was attempting to punish people based on the state of this illness, rather than for any specific act.
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Progress???
 
eye for an eye is from the Hammurabi Code.

It has gems like: If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall pay thirtyfold; if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to death.

If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.

If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire.

If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.

If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.

If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.

If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
 
Cat, the Hammurabi code predates the invent of the Muslim religion itself by about 1000 years.

Its not to say that they haven't lifted a few of the key points to add to it though.
 
well that's the high school I went to for ya.*piss2*
one reason I quit, and got my GED.

They said that quote was actually one of Mohammed's....
Of coarse as with most history, it repeats it's self.
 
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