Jesus, that's just... sick. This idiot clearly wasn't planning to be a father, he must have had a bad case of poor protection. But that doesn't matter at all. If you have a baby, you're responsible for it. If the baby bothers you, you suck it up, calm down and deal with the situation properly. Because he's a freaking baby! He doesn't know he's bothering you, he's not doing it on purpose, you dumbass!

This irresponsible idiot should not be allowed to get near another human ever again. The worst part of this story is clearly the baby's death, but as someone mentioned before, I'm sure some jackass will blame this on games, even though if the father would have been watching TV or playing cards the result would have been the same. I don't know who infuriates me more, the irresponsible imbecile who doesn't care for his child or the stupid "journalist" who tries to blame an object for what a person did.

And here comes the usual issue that I have with people and things like this:

You need to prove you're able to drive a car before you're allowed to.
You need to prove you're of sound mind before you can have a weapon.
You need to prove you can do the job you're applying for (except in the case of polititians).

So why shouldn't people need to prove they can be good, reponsible parents before they are allowed to have children?

This is every father's nightmare, and exactly why I'm scared of becoming a parent. I love children but to the life of me I cannot stand babies. I will love any child I produce or adopt, but I'm scared I may become frusterated at my child's crying and inadvertentally hurt him or her, when all I wanted to was to calm my child down. I'm not an agressive man but I'm just as prone to doing stupid things as the next guy..

No parent should ever have to bury their child. Ever.

Pussy ass country against beheadings, this sub-human not only does not deserve life, but he deserves a gruesome death.

pointless vandalism:

antipunt:

pointless vandalism:

The majority of my dates come from that site. My advise? Get a better profile. Depending on your age, weight, pictures, description etc. 1 date in 2 years...sounds like an issue with your profile, and not the people viewing you.

I'm in the same boat. I have no idea how you guys are hitting dates, it's amazing. I'm using OKCupid because I heard it's better, but it's ridiculous, the (normal) girls are SOOO selective, you'd be lucky to get a reply back, because they get flooded with hundreds of messages a week...

The thing is an absolute fail for me so far. Replies are scarce, and the ones I do get don't go anywhere (they disappear after a couple, or aren't interested in meeting me to begin with; just getting attention/killing time). And then one girl said she would go out (even gave me her number), but flaked out on me last minute. I don't even consider myself unattractive, dafaq? Is it because I'm only part-time employed?.. Mebbe my profile isn't spicy enuff

-so freaking frustrating- this online dating thing..

OKCupid is trash. Don't use it. I get messages all the time with POF. Get some nice picture of yourself. If you are ultra fat, well...black is slimming lol. Don't make your profile overly long. Do you like wine? Do you cook? Do you hike mountains? Do you make your own jerky? Make your profile stand out. If your entire self description is " I think im cool i like having fun shoot me a message" you will get nowhere. Also every message you send, spend at least 15 minutes reading their profile and connecting to them as a person. Every message I write talks about points they made in their profile. Don't be overly affectionate/complimentary. Ask 3-5 questions about things they spoke about. Always end messages with your real name. Rest is luck...I pull 4-5 dates a month and plenty of intimate evenings with it.

Thanks for the help dude. Will implement, need all the help I can get!

Scumbag Steve really hit the skids

Please deposit all vitriol and existential worry for the human species as a whole in the comments below.

You know your community too well.

Still... No game has ever gotten me so involved that I would shake a kid to death to keep going.

This guy look like some big guy who grossly a baby's durability and his own strength. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the woodshed to begin with as he just gives me that vibe. You don't shake babies, but again this guy probably doesnt know what he was getting into when he had a child in the first place. Some people get way over their heads, and may be werent ever cut out for parenthood.

Videogames ultimately aren't to blame. (Unless there's a game out there where you shake babies I don't know about that inspired him.) Poor parenting is, but I'm sure anyone with common sense could figure that much out.I doubt this guy was meaning to have it go this far, but his life is probably never going be the same. As much as I think boy this guy dumb, I can feel slightly sorry(non-zero levels.) for him as his life going his own personal hell for the forseeable future. Ultimately this his own failure, so a horrible way to learn basic life lessons.

This guy either did or didn't watch Video Games Awesome - Baby Mama.

There are many cases where parents kill their kids for stupid reasons. This being a gaming news site only report those linked to gaming. This is nothing new or avoidable really.
Sure its a pity a person had to die, but people like him shouldn't have kids in the first place.

Grey Day for Elcia:

Earnest Cavalli:
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Ever here of innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law? Say something like "In which he shook his three-week-old infant son, leading to the child's death," of a man who has not yet even started a trial and you lose any ounce of credibility you had.

It's shit like this that fucks the system. You see something reported on the news and BAM the guy's guilty. You hear someone say something and BAM you know all the facts. You read one article and BAM you believe it.

The number of times police and (more specifically) the media makes mistakes, you'd think people would learn. Ever read the retractions section of a newspaper? No. Because you don't care about facts. Just sensationalism.

Makes me sick.

If it makes you sick then why are you here? You sound a smart enough person, you most likely already know that news are specifically presented in ways to get people's attention and get them to do things like this. And for pity sake it's a internet forum, what do you expect: 5 pages of "oh I'll just sit here and wait till the trial's over"? It's like going to a *insert your least favorite musician here* concert and then complaining that the music sucks, you know what's going to happen when you clicked that link, you know exactly how it's going to make you feel, but regardless here you are QQing about it.

My advice to you is to avoid things that you KNOW will "make you sick." It's obviously not doing you any good and I can guarantee you that it's not going to stop anytime soon, so it's best if you just clicked on links that you would like better.

Sober Thal:
What a sick individual. Kids shouldn't have kids. Shaking an infant to stop them from crying is just horrible.

Am I a jerk for really wanting to know what game he was playing?

Hey, sweeping statement; we're not all shit parents who kill our children like this prick.

I think he was paying something on-line, but regardless, it isn't the games, it's his shitty parenting skills and lack of patience.
Of course a 3-week old is going to cry a lot it's hungry, wants cuddles and your attention over a game, something this guy clearly failed to provide and now he has to live with this for the rest of his life. Whether he feels remorse etc. who knows.

All I know is he's a cunt.

Am I a bad person for thinking with the kind of genetic pedigree this poor child had he might be better off dead? 'Cause to those that say "cull the stupids" this is kinda the last stage in that plan.

Yeah, I think I'm a bad person, but fucking hell, A) playing Xbox until 4 am is... ugh! and B) Shaking the damn baby!?! I may be bad, but compared to those kinds of mother fuckers I'm a damn Paragon of humanity.

Therefor Humanity is doomed

I have a question that I feel is extremely Important.

If this guy that shook a baby to death was, I duno... baking when the incessant crying drove him crazy, instead of gaming. Would the title of this article be "Weeping Infant Killed For Disturbing Dad's Baking"?

I doubt it. So why, pray tell is the father's pre-baby-shakig-activity relevant?

I think this entire story is an excuse to demonize gaming.

Come on Escapist, you're better than this (Aren't you?) Don't give additional coverage to schlock like this.

The first phrase says everything "20 year old...".

You shouldn't have kids at that age,period.Kids are for when your over 35 at least in my honest opinion(at least that's what my plan is).I'm 24 and I'm gaming quite a lot.

If you have a baby at such an young age,then maybe you should prioritize better(more baby time than gaming).

[/quote]It's called criticism. I point out the errors and they learn. You can leave any time you don't like something, if that's your thing. Me? I prefer to actually do something about it and possibly improve the experience.

But hey, sticking your head in the sand and saying lalalalalala works for some people.[/quote]

You can call it criticism if you like, seems more like making yourself feel bad to try to change something you know for a fact will stay exactly the same. But hey maybe that works for some people.

But since that kind of time wasting isn't my thing, I guess I'll leave you alone to continue your "criticism."

This is a very depressing thing and the worst part is that I can see this as happening. I'm just wondering whether he was generally this messed up or whether the lack of sleep turned an ordinary guy into the kind who would snap like that. To be fair his sleep pattern was messed anyway so I'd say he was a mess to begin with. Shouldn't have had a kid.

(Facepalms) Jesus Christ man! Priorities! Also, you're twenty, why do you have children?!?! Gaaah... now I want to bang my head against something... Whoever said "sometimes I think you need a licence to be a parent" wasn't kidding...

Jodah:
I was going to say I don't want to live on this planet anymore but no...

...What they said.

Fuck i'm growing more and more tired of such topics and the way some react to it, but i guess i'll just throw my opinion in the bowl of meaningless garbage as well.
And because someone suggested to me, when I'm writing pages of text as a comment, i should send an index along with it, here it is:

1. Why this is a bad article for the Escapist
2. Another perspective of the man's situation
3. A suggestion how we as a society should deal with it and why some reactions are more than inappropriate
4. A silly alternative

1.
First things first, good job "Escapist", another trolling topic/ misleading headline, because as we might know from the whole stupid "violence and gaming" discussion, that this is (very likely, I'm somewhat conclusive myself considering the scarce evidence) a problem in interrelation with society as a whole, rather than gaming. If this is what you want to get at, ok, but you could line it out better.

2.
As it's already illustrated, in a very macabre and sarcastic way, but whatevs

Abandon4093:
As this chart clearly demonstrates.
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Before the advent of video games, no babies were ever shaken because of emotionally disturbed and frustrated parents.

just as violence, bad family-relations and also resulting killings always existed, and if this father hadn't had gaming, he very likely would've had another hobby as a compensation for his messed up live. And that's (most of the time, not considering psychotics or neurotics, because they completely fall out of our rationality, but i'm working on this subject) the reason for shit like this, fucked up lifes! He was probably cared to less or even to much about by his own parents, very likely has a lack in social education and probably lost the perspective or reason of live, resulting in loosing any resemblance and sympathy for others, falling in a minimalistic, closed pattern as described by the "Orlando Sentinel reports" (considering I don't really know him, those are only hypothesis, a bit dramatised, I won't explain & support this further now, it simply would take to long). It might even be more "simple" as described by

C-Mag:
I know a lot of people are thinking that this man is some kind of crazy psychopath right now, but he isn't.
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Therefore I think the topic is misleading. This isn't taking the responsibility from the father, who should be sentenced, it also leaves some to "games", considering they're a part of our society by now, but also leaves some responsibility to ALL OF US.

3.
And that's what leads to the other point, our social system and some comments. At some point, this man's life got fucked up, he couldn't deal with it properly and its result is him killing an infant and he should be sentenced for this, as said, but his sentence should lead to his rehabilitation, or even better, we should implement ways to prevent this, taking our self- responsibility and our responsibility towards each other more serious, reconsider some parts of society, and not rely on short term solutions like example punishment or execution, as suggested by some, which only maintain and support such flawed systems. Personally I'm shocked from some of those suggestions, cause it shows that the suggesting person is not a bit better, if not even worse than the offending father.

4.
When I had to run through several tests (and pay shitloads of money) before gaining the right to take care for a restricted animal, I thought this should be a requirement for every person about to take responsibility of another being, also parents, but no, that would be to easy and also constrain their freedom...