Legal Niches

Disconnected Gamer Stabs Adoptive Mom

By pete_gallagher

A 15-year old Romanian male stabbed his adoptive mother seventeen times after she cut off the family's Internet service in an apparent bid to quell his online gaming addiction.

After the eruption of violence, the boy, Ionut Savin (pictured), took all the money he could find in the house and went off to the local Internet café, where he reportedly played Counter-Strike for four hours. The boy also apparently missed over 200 days of school as a result of his gaming dependency.

In a further twist, the victim was found by her husband on the couple's 16th wedding anniversary. After police were called, the boy returned home and offered, 'I think I'm the one you're looking for.'

Savin was described as a 'model student,' but 'quiet' and 'introverted.' He is currently hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic.

HotBloodedGaming found the story, which originally appeared on the Romanian website Adevarul.

|Via Kotaku|

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).