Poor kid :( I always get confused at women who stay with their partner when they are abusive, even more so when that partner is such a coward that he would attack a child simply because that's the only way he can feel 'big'.

I think the 'Game Controller' thing is irrelevant, if it had been a spade or a bat, we wouldn't be even considering the liability of the company that made them.

according to Kotaku, she was declared dead last night
source: http://www.inyork.com/ci_8845899?source=most_viewed

I don't like passing judgements, but she doesn't seem able to care for a child at her age.

I bet it was a 360 controller, those suckers are really heavy. Terrible thing, and here's hoping the media doesn't catch wind of this.

They both deserve whatever they get coming to them.

This story is sad any way you look at it, but let's all face facts. No matter what, if games or gamers are some how involved, the media, JT and the other anti-games/gamer people, and the ludite politicians will have a feild day with the story (we wouldn't have GP either, but that's one of the few good things). Games and the people who play them are open targets for attacks no matter what we do, for good or bad. It's just a shame that even though video games have been out for over 20 years, some still think games and gamers are some how evil.

If it had been a remote control in his hand, he would have used that when he snapped. If it had been a copy of the bible he would have used that. If it had been a knife... it doesn't bear thinking about.

When a parent chooses to put her child in danger by placing her in an environment with a man she KNOWS to have assaulted the child in the past, the focus should not be on what was used to beat the child, but on why this shitty parent was allowed keep her kid.

So now it's not even the games that are dangerous, but the systems themselves? Certain idiots are going to have a field day with this.
It's nice to know what he media will focus on, not why this girl had a child so young, not the whereabouts of baby-daddy, not why the "mother"allowed this all to go on when she admits to knowing about it, but that the final blow was struck with a video game controller.



@Shoehorn O'Plenty

Despite popular opinion, where I live, the system is geared in favour of the parents. You have pretty much kill or be caught raping a child to finally get parental rights removed for good. They give the "parents" chance after chance, and when they have even temporarily removed the kids the "parents" start screeching about how horribly the kids are being treated in foster care as if the reason they are in foster to begin with is irrelevant.

Consider all factors, gentelman.

1. The woman had a daughter at nineteen. There's no way she went to college, so she's probably lower class.

2. She's stupid enough to date a man who already beat her daughter, which suggests dependence upon said asshole.

Therein, I believe the crime was carried out with an Xbox controller or a Gamecube controller. The old versions, not the newer ones.

To be frank, what the fuck is wrong with people?

Add this one to Toll's "Parental Licensing" idea.

As seen in just GP's article, the guy already had a violent record and the mom knew about it.

Now, we don't know everything about mom. She may have been a life long abuse victim from childhood. It doesn't EXCUSE her actions. But it would put things in a more understandable context. I won't immediately condemn her until I know more about her.

Him on the other hand....

If anyone catches a particular sensationalist headline from any particular tabloid trash news organization, please be sure to share it.

Thanks.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

Toll: How many examples do I need to collect that advocate parental licensing?  Also this was a test of the Tollwutig comment modification system.

I bet lawsuit threats have already been faxed and emailed. Remember, if the game controller wasn't there, then he would never have struck the child.

My god son is 2. Kids that age are near indestructible from what I can tell. They do things that would make me cry and walk away uninjured. He must have been abusing with the intention of intense injury, which brings in to question how you could do that too a 2 year old.

@Zen
I do know plenty people who have had children young. My god son is 2 as I mentioned and his mother has him at 19; My cousin had her son at 18 and though both accidental the kids are both loved and cared for and really changed their parents. There are plenty of situations where someone is far too young to be having a kid (ie. 17 ... 2 year old at 19) where my only intention is to believe it is accidental pregnancy, I also have reason to believe that since they never said "husband", they are not married. This is probably not a positive situation and it would make plenty of sense to call child services.

@Twin-Skies

What, no retrogaming options? You wanna talk about dangerous controllers, talk about the old NES Advantage controllers. You could easily crack some skulls with one of those.

Just put him in prison. What is the deal? He could have used anything to hit that poor girl in the head. He is scum and just needs to go to prison.

The sad thing is, the mother who kept her child with a man who already hurt that child will not be blamed. The man who beat the child will not be blamed.

No, no, video games did it.

*sigh*, incoming Jack Thompson in 3, 2, 1..

Running this story seems to contradict not running other stories GP has chosen not to run because the only thing they had to do with video games was some off the wall connection. Is GP somehow related to this?

If he had tried to use a SIXAXIS, nothing would have happened. Hell, had that been the case, the controller would have probably broke. The thing's so damn light.

My money's on an N64 controller, those things are basically chunky, plastic Sai.

Agreed Catch.

I hope it wasn't an Atari 5200 controller.

Hmm, let's see... the suspect is... 26?

Yep, people will blame the game. That's all the 'experts' need.

@ Zerodash

Your comments i find are nearly always stupid

if he didn't have a controller he would of used his bare hands seeing how mentally unstable he seems

@GP was he drunk or sober?

A two year old jesus christ

@ Kincyr

Well, and I hate to say this, the child is better off being released from the mortal coil than to live trapped in it.

I love how everybody is saying "dont blame video games" and "it was probably a 360 controller, I hope the media dosent find out" I mean im not against violent video games and I do hate how the media blames games for everything but nobody seems to care that a innocent 2-year old got hurt and is in a coma.

Videogames dont kill people....

Videogame controllers do......

[...] GamePolitics wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Associated Press reports that a York, Pennsylvania man is under arrest after he allegedly beat his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter with an unspecified video game controller. The little girl, suffering from severe head and body trauma, was in a coma as of yesterday. The suspect, Harve Johnson, 26, was charged with various counts of assault. The mother, Neida Baez, 19, was charged with child endangerment, apparently because she was aware of past abuse of her daughter by Johnson. UPDATE: Tragically, the two-year-old victim, Darisabel Baez, has succumbed to her injuries, according to the Associated Press. [...]

I'm truthfully speechless on this. There is no excuse for beating a kid, let alone to death. Both the abusive boyfriend and neglectfull mother will soon get thier deserved sentences. Till then it $200,000 and $25,000 bail respectively. Not enough in my opinion.

Now we just sit and wait for Jack Thompson to be the vulture that he is.

Ouch, those gamecube controllers really hurt.