Mother half starves children, lets dogs die
September 13, 2010
A British woman has been given a suspended sentence and banned from using a computer after failing to cook for her children for six months and allowing her dogs to starve to death.
The 33-year-old widow has been playing Small World, in which dwarves and giants battle to dominate a too-small area – for up to 22 hours a day, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Her children, aged 9, 10 and 13, were left to eat cold baked beans from the tin and other uncooked food.
The alarm was raised when a neighbor looked through the letterbox and saw the filthy state of the house. When officers entered, they found rubbish, moldy food, and two dead dogs. The woman admitted that they had probably starved to death two months earlier because of her addiction to the computer game.
Read the full article at TG daily.com
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