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Oh dear! I think there was even a big photo of the GameCube inside. Not exactly the best publicity for Nintendo...

This is a different story to the other one. :(

GAME-MAD DAD 'KILLED BABY'
Twin son 'dead under GameCube fan dad'
By Aidan Mcgurran

A WEEPING mother told yesterday how she found one of her twin baby sons lying dead on a sofa under her computer-mad boyfriend.

Zoe O'Leary, 18, spotted the leg of four-month Byron poking out from beneath sleeping James Tuffs who was said to become enraged if interrupted while playing on his Nintendo GameCube.

She said: "James was lying on him. I started shaking and screaming at him to move. He got up and picked up Byron. I said 'Oh my God you've killed my baby'."

Byron had a fractured skull and two fractured ribs. His brother Tyrese - who was sleeping on the floor - had fractures to his skull, ribs arm and legs. Dad Tuffs, 21, denies manslaughter and cruelty.
Prosecutor Oliver Sells said there was no cause of death for Byron.

But he dismissed Tuffs' claim that the baby suffocated when he fell asleep on top of him, saying: "These serious and extensive injuries were caused by this defendant who must have operated a persistent regime of cruelty."

Tuffs cared for Byron and Tyrese downstairs while Zoe looked after their daughter, Aaliyah, now two, upstairs, Norwich crown court heard.

But he was accused of preferring computer games to his children.

The twins, it was claimed, would regularly fall asleep on the sofa while Tuffs played into the early hours.

Mr Sells said: "You will hear something about his moods - irritable if his games were interrupted, on occasion shouting. He would rather play on the computer than anything else.

"Generally the twins would either be on the sofa or in their bouncy chairs."

Zoe claimed that once Tuffs let rip with a four-letter word outburst because she had stepped in front of his view of a computer game. Before Byron died Tuffs had been excited about buying a new game called True Crimes, the court heard.

The baby, who was "grey and floppy", was pronounced dead at hospital. Two weeks earlier, it was alleged, Tuffs told his girlfriend Tyrese had stopped breathing.

Tuffs said he gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

The boy was taken to a nearby surgery where he was checked and found to be well.

Mr Sells said though health visitors regularly looked in on the family neither child had external injuries. The fractures, which medical experts said could not have been accidental, were revealed by X-ray.

The prosecutor added: "No one, except the person responsible, would have known of these injuries.

"This is nothing to do with shaken baby syndrome and it is nothing to do with cot death. It is about injuries inflicted on these babies."

The case continues.
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Aaliyah, Byron and Tyrese??

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Also, he became enraged because of GameCube & promptly fell asleep? :lol :lol :lol
 
Jeez, that's truly awful.

Give this guy the chair. If he's willing to kill over something this trivial, he's not fit for society.
 
The Faceless Master said:
i wonder if nintendo will get sued over this...
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I wonder if Nintendo will institute compulsory "Don't Kill Your Baby" warnings at the start of every game over this...
 
I still think the funniest part of this story is that these British kids are named Aaliyah, Byron and Tyrese. :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
I'm surprised the Daily Mirror didn't call it a Playstation :lol

Nothing to laugh about the story though...it's sick. The guy is clearly disturbed and pyschotic to kill a child over something so trivial.
 
123rl said:
Nothing to laugh about the story though...it's sick. The guy is clearly disturbed and pyschotic to kill a child over something so trivial.
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Of course he's psychotic, though if you read the story, there's really nothing connecting the attacks with his videogame playing. He just happened to get mad when he played games & happened to abuse his kids. It's just the media drawing connections that probably don't exist to sensationalize things.
 
Unison said:
Of course he's psychotic, though if you read the story, there's really nothing connecting the attacks with his videogame playing. He just happened to get mad when he played games & happened to abuse his kids. It's just the media drawing connections that probably don't exist to sensationalize things.
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The headline includes calls him a 'gamecube fan' :lol
 
Unison said:
I still think the funniest part of this story is that these British kids are named Aaliyah, Byron and Tyrese. :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Yeah, I think so too. Some of you fuckers have no sense of humor.
 
How could anyone laugh at that news - its horrible. Laughing at others tragedy just means you're a prick who's gonna get it back one day.
 
I cannot believe anyone would come into this thread and laugh about someones baby dying due to neglect. Regardless of what made this person angry enough to harm these babies it is still sick and disgusting.
 
Shao said:
How could anyone laugh at that news - its horrible. Laughing at others tragedy just means you're a prick who's gonna get it back one day.
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Maybe it's the other way around. Maybe we've already paid our dues and finally get a good laugh out of it?
 
Shao said:
How could anyone laugh at that news - its horrible. Laughing at others tragedy just means you're a prick who's gonna get it back one day.
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Oh please, it's not like we knew the guy. If the "tragedy" actually affected someone I care about, then it wouldn't be so funny. But I'm not the sort who watches the news, weeping at the tragedies of the world. And thank god!

In a related story, I laughed when Phil Spector got arrested.
 
I could understand if he was playing fzero or monkey ball, true crime, ugh, he should be killing himself, not babies.
 
Well the guy in the picture I assume is the dad is white. And the chicks last name is O'LEARY :lol

Tyrese O'Leary :lol
 
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