Last year this article about a father (allegedly) beating his 17 month old daughter to death for breaking his video game console would have made me grimace and shake my head. Today, reading it is a different experience.
This version of the story has a few more medical facts – though the two articles contradict one another somewhat.
“She pulled the cord and the whole game console fell over,” Spellman said in his statement, read by Homicide Detective John Cummings. “I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair.”
Anger mismanagement doesn’t even enter into the picture here – this guy, provided he is guilty, needs to be “adjusted” to a better attitude.
Most of the references to this story seem to be from video game sites – strange that it was not picked up on regular news channels. Strange and, frankly, sad. Violence against children – video game related or not – is a crime that needs to be extinguished. Period.