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Mom Kills Baby Over FarmVille

Posted by JacobSloan on October 28, 2010

Tobias_20101028115309_320_240Hate to say it, but I’m surprised a “FarmVille-related family killing” hasn’t happened before — I’m calling it the start of a trend in American homes. The Florida Times-Union reports on a mother who killed her baby after its crying interfered with her playing the Facebook-based game:

A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

Tobias entered her plea Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud. A second-degree murder charge is punishable by up to life in prison.

Prosecutor Richard Mantei said Tobias’ sentence could be less because of state guidelines that call for 25 to 50 years. Soud offered no promises on what he’ll order during a sentencing hearing scheduled for December.

Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again. She said the baby may have hit his head during the shaking.

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  • Andrew

    Does anyone else think it’s pathetically ironic that there’s a video game about living on a farm?

  • Andrew

    Does anyone else think it’s pathetically ironic that there’s a video game about living on a farm?

  • Baby_Slayer

    This is a general response to everyone:

    First of all, according to Darwin’s Natural Selection, this “incident” will only help to produce babies with stronger neck muscles.

    Second, her intent was not to kill the child. This fits along the lines of people who kill someone by causing an accident while texting in a car or drinking before driving. It’s common sense that you shouldn’t do it, but you do it anyway thinking that you won’t kill anyone. She wanted quiet time, not to kill her child. Sure she is stupid, but she isn’t a danger to anyone. Even having her in jail for life is a huge waste of tax dollars. She isn’t going to walk down the street and start shaking random babies. She should never be allowed to have children or small animals, but I doubt she is dangerous. And using jail as a means of punishment for someone who isn’t a threat to society could not only be ineffective, it could make her worse.

    IMHO, she needs to have her uterus removed, spend some confined time in a mental hospital, be required to attend regular therapy sessions, do lots of community service, and be banned from the internet for life.

  • Albinojones

    Our ‘civilization’ is so screwed…

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