Killing a human being and killing an insect are NOT one-and-the-same. If you can't see that, you're beyond all reason and common sense. I'm not even sure how to conduct this conversation, beyond laughing in your face and/or crying a little inside. So, uh, I'll just stop there.

brace for shitstorm.

god damn it. well, as long as he gets removed from the gene pool in prison.

Oh man, there are too many stupid fucking violent morons in the world.

Its Just A Fucking Game.

God only knows how he only got manslaughter and not cold-blooded-murder.
"Temporary Insantity" - Bullshit. Fuck all that "Its Not My Fault" crap, I don't give a shit what mood you are in, your actions and choices are your own and your responsibility.

I hope he gets totally fucked up in jail.

"The reason people swear is because they cant grasp the english language well enough to use a descriptive word and so instead use a swear word to dramatise their piece of writing."

Funnily enough, I'll let you sympathize with a baby killer all you want, but THIS is the rubbish I take issue with. Swearing, in the words of Stephen Fry, is a wonderful thing and has its place. The argument that people who swear "can't grasp the English language" is, to be "eloquent," a load of fucking bullshit.

Please take your arrogant language elitism elsewhere kthnx.

@Sinow Wolf

Those (both very much missed) talented performers Bill Hicks and George Carlin had an admirably extensive vocabulary and they both swore like marines who had stubbed their toe on a landmine. Your logic there is specious.

@ Sinow Wolf

Cheer up, matey. At least you aren't one of those myriad twats who just post OMG DO WANT!!! in the comments after game preview articles. See what I did there? With a bit of luck the hounds will go after me now. Run while you can man! Just name your firstborn after me...

You think an insect could put up a good fight against a human? What are you a borrower?

I'm not trolling, my views are just different I guess.

Lol I wasn't saying what he did was right. I was just arguing your point of letting you cast the first the stone as you've never killed anything small and defenseless. I pointed out insects as a passing statement, I'm surprised we've managed to carry it on this far.

I added you as a friend now, lol.

I don't want to detract from the tragedy of this story. However, I'm tired of reading stuff like this and hearing "what times are these, that something like this can occur? I fear for the future of blah blah blah...." I hate to break it to you kids, but horrible parents have been killing babies for a long, long time. Just because the trigger was a videogame doesn't make this a sudden indicator of end times. Guys have killed babies for interrupting their: drinking, football, train of thought, reading the newspaper, phone call.

It happens. It's tragic. And it does indicate the darker impulses of humans, and what happens when bad judgment and lack of control (for various reasons) let that impulse loose, to horrific consequences. But it is by no means new.

wow, some of you are utterly ridiculous. I have a 9 month old baby daughter. I play games at night when she goes to bed. Inevitably, she wakes up screaming. I pause the game or shut off the console and see what she needs. It's just a damn game, people.

@pseudothink: you say " It is terribly easy to accidentally injure or even kill a baby by shaking it. He may have just had a horrible day and been a little out of his head, and acted on impulse without thought or judgement."

you sound like an ass. Yes, it is terribly easy to accidentally injure or kill a baby by shaking it. THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T DO THAT, EVER. NO MATTER WHAT. No day is horrible enough, ever, to even try to begin to think about speculating how to justify shaking a baby.

The gene pool has a shallow end, and way too many of you are peeing in it.

@ everyone

Gentlemen (and ladies), we have become the wolf licking the blooded knife now (in the autumn years of the responses to the original article) - in danger of consuming ourselves instead of our quarry of the mad bastard who did the murderous babyshake in the first place.

While I have enjoyed reading and contributing to this 'spirited' discussion much more than the usual tired memes afloat elsewhere, I must now play the wise old uncle (no, not the one that touched you inappropriately when camping that time - the other one - the boring one who spouted advice you didn't realise was useful until much later). If you find yourselves in the situation of having a constantly crying baby (one which isn't ill or hungry - is perhaps just teething, or aware that crying will get attention from you), and lack of sleep has your patience worn to a nub, then -

[b]ask a neighbour, friend or family member to sit with you;
turn up music or wear earplugs whilst cradling, walking and GENTLY bouncing your baby in your arms;
call out a doctor (if you have free healthcare or wads of cash);
get some sleep for heaven's sake.[/b]

I'm off to watch Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi again, just to remind myself how much we are effing things up as a species. Thank you all for being you; I'd much rather be here than sitting in a Gentlemen's club circa 1786. :)

Yeah, he might have accidentally killed a baby because he was in "The Zone" but you all seem to forget that in this world, as a human being, we have been doing shit like this forever, people dump babies on the side of the road, neglect them, you all pretend like this is some sort of isolated incident. For all the glamorous thing's we have in the world end we are still animals, what makes us worse is the fact we choose to do these horrible thing's, humanity essentially personifies evil. No other animal is capable of that.

Death Sentence GO!

A kid's crying being annoying shouldn't even be brought up. Being a parent of two, this guy makes me sick, and 10.5 to 21 years is far too short. I don't care if the murder was intentional or not, this guy is mentally ill and deserves far worse.

Fuck...

The picture made me laugh.

but this person is just a bit too addicted to gaming.

*vomits*

This is awful.

I hope he has a fun time in hell.

why hasn't anyone mentioned COUNTER STRIKE???? that game makes me pissed sometimes and my parents kick me off my system and threaten to delete all my games off my system... (but they dont know my steam pass, haha!)

I doubt that baby felt anywhere near as much pain as a cow getting it's throat slit and left to bleed to death does in a slaughterhouse.

the nervous system of a 18 day old baby, or the nervous system of a 3 year old cow?

Yep, not a crime.

Did you know that we circumcise newborns without anesthetics?

That's right, we cut part of their fucking penises off soon after their born while they're fully conscious.

Anyone crying over this is living in bullshit land. I'm not not dishonest enough to go there with you.