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All these sources have one thing in common - they all draw attention to the controller.
I find this incredibly annoying, as a controller is likely to do the same amount of damage as hitting her with a TV Remote...or even a large book.
If this had been the case however, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much focus on the "murder weapon" or an outcry to ban TV, or to outlaw reading large and heavy books like encyclopaedias, dictionaries and...bibles.
The whole anti-videogame movement in the media is starting to get way out of hand.
Video games are still on the fringe of society for most people, so they're bound to be demonized. Just look to the past when the same thing happened to rock music, comic books, TV, movies, the list goes on...
You just KNOW that the media would blow its collective wad if the police report said the guy played Grand Theft Auto in his spare time.
Hey, just in time for GTAIV's release, too.
I mean seriously who throws a controller, c'mon...
Oh and hitting a kid is bad too