Kotaku
After dropping into a coma from severe brain injury, a 2-year-old-girl from York, Pennsylvania was declared dead last night. Her mother's boyfriend who confessed to the beating is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment. The mother has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
During questioning at the police station, Johnson admitted to beating the girl but did not say why, Ward said. The toddler was beaten with a video game controller and cord, according to charging documents.
After the attack, the couple had tried to revive the child through various means and eventually called 911. The confessor, Harve L. Johnson, did not comment as to the cause of his brutality.
Beaten toddler dies [In York]
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Jack Thompson in 5... 4...
aggravated assault? charge him with first degree murder.
all I can think to say is what kind of video game controller?
If it's a PS3 controller, they must have hit pretty hard. That thing is light.
should have used the wii condom
Ugh, sick how the mother didn't try and stop the beating.
Mark before the trolls attack ya
fix the typo 17 words in....
'was declared' not we
shaunomacx
.... thats just so low...
Hopefully this ass wipe will get a controller rammed up his ass in prison (for the next ten years).
@notalkjustrock:
You insensitive price. Can we please ban this fucker?
An innocent girl died because of this and you make a joke? Ugh
disgusting.
@LittleBigPlaneteer:
Prick*
@uranutan:
@notalkjustrock:
you guys are disgusting. please go to hell kthx
@notalkjustrock: thats just sick, why do people find it funny when innocent CHILDREN or adults get killed when videogaming peripherals are involved, or games too.
its not funny, all it does is make you look like a stupid cunt joking about it
There is no excuse for this kind of thing.
@notalkjustrock: +1......"too soon?"
I'm almost ashamed to laugh at that one, but clever nonetheless.
i'd argue that the kid never really had a chance.
single mothers: STOP FUCKING DATING SCUMBAGS.
What a nutjob. Poor kid having such screwed up people in her life... :(
@feartheraven: I believe that was the preliminary charges before the child died. As mentioned in the article, the charges could be amended. I'm imagining they will be with manslaughter to murder.
Why isn't he being charged with murder?
Oh my god! They live right down the street from me. This is horrible. What goes through peoples' minds is incomprehensible sometimes. I feel no remorse for whatever brand of justice that sort of brutality brings to the inflicter.
He's lucky he's behind bars right now. York might be a rough city, but we don't stand for that sort of thing.
That picture reminds me of my niece which serves only to make me angrier. Honestly, I hope he dies in prison or gets the death penalty. The thought of this creep ever being free again is too disturbing.
By the way, first degree murder should be the charge, not aggravated assault, he should fry for killing a child.
Fucking disgusting.
I'm wondering why he didn't give a reason for doing what he did. I'm wondering what kind of mother wouldn't do anything to stop that. What the hell is wrong with the world?
@LittleBigPlaneteer: @cash: I agree. Ban them both. A toddler gets beaten to death, and they bust out the funny? Disgusting.
@cash: @notalkjustrock: @shaunomacx:
Stop taking things so seriously. It's a joke. Lighten up.
This makes me sick to my stomach.
@BigPete7978: Yeah, why isn't he?
"..." Really. You really felt the need to beat a 2 year old to death. Times like these I wish we could adopt some of the Chinese law system. Shoot him and make his family pay for the bullet.
One of the problems with this country....
The punishments never fit the crimes.
He should be beaten to death by someone twice his size wielding a sledge hammer.
@my spoon is too big:
+1 to me for outing you as an asshole
Duh...
@uranutan: A toddler died by being beaten with a game controller. HA HA HA. Isn't that hilarious? HA HA HA.
So, maybe you should be a little more serious, and stop telling people to lighten up.
@uranutan:
it happens to someone in your family and tell me its a joke then asswipe
I don't even have words for that story, and the words that I have for those who think this is funny would likely get me banned.
Anyone who would even think of doing that to a child should fry.
@uranutan:
She's a dead toddler you fucking prick. There's nothing even slightly humors to be had with that. You must have something seriously wrong with your head if you think you're being funny.
Come on, Kotaku. The video game connection in this story is strenuous at best. This is covering a tragedy for the sake of covering a tragedy, and it's the sort of bullshit "Let's get viewers by exploiting whatever tragedy we can" crap that permeates nearly every American news outlet.
I thought Kotaku was better than this.
Fuck... I don't even know what to say.
was it his kid?
I don't see how this is relevant to video games TBQH.
If someone gets stabbed with a kitchen knife does it go up on a cooking blog?
If JT or someone gets involved, I can see how it's relevant, but ATM it has no relevancy.
Not exactly Kotaku-worthy news, but still a God damn shame.
@Bishmon: FutureBan, my friend. This has enough to do with gaming that we need to be informed.
@uranutan: Piece of shit.
seriously what is wrong with people, how many of these stories have we seen the past couple of months? pretty sickening.
@Bishmon: Its relevant news, as in gaming gets bad press, games become a scapegoat for all kinds of shit....it spirals down from there
Remind me again which video game instructs you to murder babies?
@uranutan: it's not funny a child died
I take it Jack Thompson its gonna take this game related again, pretty dissapointing that why would they hurt a 2 year old girl
This would have been ripe for the laughs if the original Xbox controller was still around.