Mother Kills Her Baby After Farmville Interruption

FarmVilleFarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social-networking website Facebook and as an App on both the Apple iPhone and Android. Quite recently it was also available on Apple iPad.

The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, harvesting trees and bushes, and by raising livestock. FarmVille started as a clone of the popular Farm Town.

A 22-year-old mother (Alexandra V. Tobias) from Jacksonville, Florida, arrested for shaking her 3-month-old son to death after his crying interrupted her FarmVille game. She told the cops that she shook the baby, then smoked a cigarette for composing herself and again she proceeded to shake him again. She said his son would have hit his head during one of the two shakings.

She was arrested in January and declared her plea on Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud. It is not the game, but Tobias who is responsible for her son’s death. Though FarmVille is a cooperative, non-violent game, it is named one of the “worst inventions” in recent decades by Time magazine. FarmVille has almost 60 million members and most of access this game through Facebook.

25 thoughts on “Mother Kills Her Baby After Farmville Interruption”

  1. I seriously hate this stupid game man….. Really can imagine what is so special in this game…..

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  2. Shitt!! a senseless stupid mother. A game can be played thousands of times but she can never get her child back .

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  3. Definitely sick and sad. I do not understand the game addiction. Look at the FaceBook pages of some people and you will see hours upon hours spent DAILY playing these insipid games.

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  4. I agree with Namit,

    how can a mother be so cruel…for such unproductive thing and also to the extent of killing..

    She doesn’t deserves playing it!

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  5. Too much of addiction in any thing always brings undesirable results.. bus this case is too worse.. very sad thing.. hope this news will reduce such sort of addicted members..

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  6. How a mother can kill a baby just for the game? It’s unbelievable. That mother surely don’t have a heart of mother.

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  7. This is ridiculously insane.. It’s hard to believe such type of people exists in this World

    Sad 🙁

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  8. I played farmville for about 2 weeks and got to say it sucked big time. What’s the point in harvesting a virtual farm? I seriously didn’t manage to understand why people keep on playing it and killing someone for it is even more ridiculous.

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  9. it’s really insane to hurt someone just bcoz he interrupted you in a Game…..Really Farmville has some sort of Addiction in it’s Game-play……..Thank God…I never played it….

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  10. This game is actually a bit different one. I stopped playing it after finding sort of addition. A Game is actually controlled by an user but here the farmville controls the user by setting certain time amount, else the crops will go withered.

    This difference makes the addiction more that affects the user concentration in any other work as well.

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