A teenager who had gone through numerous hours of Manhunt has murdered a nurse. He spent weeks of researching and money to purchase some products used in Manhunt. The nurse was slashed & hacked 72 times. They found the teenagers kit after it was dumped and it had his address on the mail ordering package.
The parents had said that her boy was performing superbly in education and has 10 good GCSE's. The parent also went on saying that she never knew games were so graphic and violent. The parent also had the guts to say that she just realised recently that there is age ratings on the games packaging.
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THE parents of Britain's most violent teenage murderer has revealed how computer games dripping with bloodlust and death turned their son into a twisted killer.
Stuart Harling — who'd seemed a normal loving boy — got life for stabbing nurse Cheryl Moss to death while she was on a cigarette break.
In a sickening random attack the 18-year-old trainee accountant slashed and hacked her 72 times — just like he'd PRACTISED on the PlayStation in his bedroom.
Now, two weeks after he was convicted at the Old Bailey, heartbroken mum Lorraine Harling has confessed she and husband David had NO IDEA of the well of savagery that had quietly built up in their son.
School attendance officer Lorraine said: "Stuart never gave us any reason to think he was violent at all. He was a very normal boy—quiet and reserved. I used to call him ‘my little professor'.
"I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were."
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If someone goes on a murderous rampage because of a video-game, then they were obviously pretty screwed up to begin with. A normal person doesn't start killing people just because they play violent games.
Plus ... maybe the mother should take a long, hard look at herself. She's the idiot who assumed that all games are nice, safe and friendly for kids, simply because "everyone else was playing them". A parent should take the effort to find out EXACTLY what their kids are playing, and how they are handling it ... Instead of just assuming everything is peachy, then blaming the games when something goes wrong with their kid.
Jesus *bleep*ing Christ, I seriously hate people like this to death!
You never hear anything like "Big Brain Academy tought be to be smart", u always hear "This game made them kill, so it should be banned"! I bet if it was even a Barney game, she would say something in it made him kill, because this just shows that she is a shit parent and didnt even take the time to see what her son was doing, since he had like 2 weeks to get all the stuff necessary.
She instantly assumes that, because of Manhunt, a game that has multiple warnings about it's content on the case, all games MUST be bad and should be banned. All I can say to that is, she is a freaking moron. This just goes to prove that it's nobodies fault except the parents. And because she can't take the fact that she caused it, she blames video games.
Sure, lets say Manhunt sent off a chain reaction in this kids mind from the first time he played that sent him to kill this nurse, we'll assume that for just a minute. Does it not come to reason that even if the mother was stupid enough not to read the warnings and all, that she should have at least been checking up on the teen every once and awhile when he was playing? Would it not stand to reason that she should have supervised him for a little bit? If she did that, she might have been able to pick up on the fact that the game is violent or her kid wasn't terribly straight in the head.
Sorry if anything I say seems a tad cruel, but I'm sick and tired of idiots like this making foolish assumptions about topics they know nothing about. Wacky Jacko is gonna have a field day with this...
It's a load of crap though. As you say GG, no actual "normal" person would decide "hey, that's a cool idea, I'll try that".
Games didn't make the kid do this. The kid did it his self.
I have actually handled firearms when I was younger, and I still have the BB gun. yet, I have never shot any human being with it, just because I have played a few (OK, a lot of) games with guns.
If the game did make their son a killer, why are they only now telling us this information. However it still is a pretty gruesome attack.
Man I'd love to be a lawyer for a gaming company right now. I give them such a shouting at ! ...
Gamestores Should take more responsibility too, though. Just like gun retailers take more caution in who they give guns to. Games like manhunt that are explicitly for the celebration of violence - perhaps should not be kept on the shelves, but under the counter. That way, kids won't be tempted to get it, or even know it's there. And the people that want it can still get it easily after they show their ID.
(Not enough to kill him, just make him retire...)
Besides, he was old enough to purchase the game by himself.
Its not like people do not now abut Manhunt.. it is a game that nearly everyone knows about.. and even if people don't read the news, they can read the game details on the back of the box before they buy the game for their children..so it is no point blaming the game... if you really want something to blame for rising violence, blame the armies in all the countries for drafting in kids against their will and forcing them to go for meaningless wars and kill unamed numbers of innocents..that is waaay more evil than what a game like manhunt can ever do..
This line is not in the game...not in any game I've ever played...BUT, I do remember this from a movie...yes...a movie...maybe that could've been at fault too? A GODAMN MOVIE??
People could be asking themselves...why? My theory is that he was probably bored with his life...I mean, spotless and shining school record...bound to have some skeletons in the closet.
And the game was Manhunt.
Plus, the ratings are on every single fricking game.
B-tch.