Kid commits suicide after parents ban game

[Drtooth]

News Via Quick Jump: Andrei Smirnov, 10, jumped from the 19th floor of his apartment in Moscow after his parents decided to ban him from playing video games on his PC for bad conduct and poor school performance. Andrei's parents dropped the hammer when the boy's teacher revealed what he's been doing in school, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid.

Andrei tried to remove bad records on his name from the school diary written by his teacher, but his plan to prevent his folks from catching word of his undesirable attitude wasn't very successful. His parents wanted the computer to be off-limits after they discovered what he did, which led him to commit suicide.

On a more disheartening note, Director of Centre for Legal Psychological Assistance Mikhail Vinogradov believes children banned from playing video games could resolve to suicide since they don't know what consequences await.

Our condolences go to Andrei's family, with prayers hoping such tragedy doesn't happen again.

Sounds like this kid had some mundo mental problems to do himself in for something so trivial. I bet that game censorship dude is rolling around the floor laughing over this news....

[Rooish]

Wow, i meant to comment on this before. That kid has serious obsession issues. I wonder why it is that people get so obsessed with things? Do you think people don't have enough to do with their time?

[KROW]

I, too, was going to reply to this, but didn't know what to say. All I can think of is there has to be more to this than is reported. I mean, a 10-year-old boy commits suicide just because his parents forbade him to play games? Surely in Moscow there have to be other things for a young child to do for recreation other than gaming and messing with school records.

I agree that he had to have some form of psychological damage to just up and away out a window for a punishment of that magnitude.

[Buslady]

This kinda hits home a little too much.