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Man Convicted Of Poisoning His Parents Uses “Games Made Me Crazy Defense”
November 12, 2008
For the first time in the history of the judicial process a death row inmate is trying to use video games as a defense loophole to get out of the sentence passed by a court in Suining City. Hu Ange, a 22-year old gamer was convicted of poisoning both of his parents by slipping tetramine into their lunch. According to reports, Hu reportedly went into another room to play the online game Legend while his parents called for help.
The Chinese Ministry of Health recently issued a statement qualifying “Internet addiction” as a plausible mental disorder. And Hu is the first to try and jump on the lifeboat, claiming an online gaming addiction drove him to insanity. Hopefully they’ll go ahead a stay the order of execution. I’m guessing the “game addicts” probably rate somewhere close to the pedophiles and wife beaters in the inmate food chain.
[GamePolitics via Kotaku]
