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Originally from: Sky News
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.htmlhttp://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.html
Girl Killed After 'Video Game Violence'
Updated:14:23, Thursday December 20, 2007
Two teenagers have been charged with killing a seven-year-old girl by beating her to death with moves from the Mortal Kombat video game.
Heather Trujillo and Lamar RobertsLamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, killed Trujillo's half-sister Zoe Garcia while they were babysitting her, prosecutors have said.
They have been charged as adults in Colorado on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said.
Police reports say Zoe lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teenagers hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game.
Trujillo and Roberts reportedly tried reviving the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and paramedics.
However, the girl died in hospital.
An autopsy showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.
Roberts said he was downstairs playing video games while the sisters wrestled upstairs, police said. But a witness quoted in a police affidavit said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.
The witness told police that Roberts said Zoe had told them to stop wrestling.
According to the affidavit, when the witness asked why they didn't stop, he responded: "I don't know; I was drunk."
If convicted, the teens could be sentenced to 48 years in prison.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.htmlhttp://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1297829,00.html
Girl Killed After 'Video Game Violence'
Updated:14:23, Thursday December 20, 2007
Two teenagers have been charged with killing a seven-year-old girl by beating her to death with moves from the Mortal Kombat video game.
Heather Trujillo and Lamar RobertsLamar Roberts, 17, and Heather Trujillo, 16, killed Trujillo's half-sister Zoe Garcia while they were babysitting her, prosecutors have said.
They have been charged as adults in Colorado on one count each of felony child abuse causing death, state prosecutor Robert Miller said.
Police reports say Zoe lost consciousness and stopped breathing after the teenagers hit, kicked and body-slammed her, imitating moves used in the video game.
Trujillo and Roberts reportedly tried reviving the girl by putting her under running water and attempting CPR before they called her mother and paramedics.
However, the girl died in hospital.
An autopsy showed she had a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine.
Roberts said he was downstairs playing video games while the sisters wrestled upstairs, police said. But a witness quoted in a police affidavit said Roberts told her he had kicked the girl.
The witness told police that Roberts said Zoe had told them to stop wrestling.
According to the affidavit, when the witness asked why they didn't stop, he responded: "I don't know; I was drunk."
If convicted, the teens could be sentenced to 48 years in prison.
Guess there are more tragic things happening in the world than police officers loosing their temper and hurting the feelings of young skate boarder kids. Pretty sad. Kind of retarded that the title says she was killed by "video game violence" though. Pretty misleading.
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