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Addicted to a fantasy world: Mother obsessed with computer game let her children live in squalor and left her dogs to starve to death

A mother neglected her three children and let her dogs starve to death because she was so obsessed with a computer game.The 33-year-old woman played the Small World game almost non-stop on the internet for months while her children were reduced to eating cold baked beans straight from the tin with their fingers. Her home became filthy, with rubbish strewn over the floor and the bodies of her two dogs, a German shepherd and a lurcher, left for two months in the dining room it was revealed. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been given a suspended jail sentence and banned from using the internet by a judge in Kent. LINK : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311368/Mother-obsessed-game-neglects-ch… added by: GoldenHeart