Dec 20
Two Teens Kill 7-Year-Old Girl with Supposed Mortal Kombat Moves
- By Scott Johnson on December 20th, 2007
Since the rest of the web is talking about this like it’s the biggest story ever, I figure we can talk a bit about it as well. A quote:
The two teens reportedly hit, kicked, and body-slammed 7-year-old Zoe Garcia, causing “a broken wrist, more than 20 bruises, swelling of the brain, and bleeding in her neck muscles and under her spine”, the affidavits have said. Prosecutors are claiming the teens were imitating “wrestling moves” found in the Mortal Kombat video game.
Wow…Think Jack will have fun with this one? sigh… I just feel bad for the little girl, and I feel like kicking the teens in the face. Unfortunately for me, a kick to the face might also be consstrued as a Mortal Kombat “wrestling move”. 
Source to the full story.
“There is no defense for this kind of crime. The pure malice you need in order to kill a 7 year old girl that brutally does not come, nor is there any evidence it comes from, video games. The fact video games are being dragged into this horrendous debacle is indicative of the current state of affairs and only reinforces the publics misconceived perception regarding the impact of videogame violence.”
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Uh… MK is not a wrestling game, nor does it really have any wrestling moves in it. Once again a game will be blamed for the ills of children.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Mortal kombat moves? 3/4 of those moves are impossible.
Also those two are brother and sister? Really?
This is truely aweful.
I have one question, will there be as much of an uproar about the 17 year old being drunk as that he was imitating a video game?
Hoped ya wouldn’t have posted it.. Oh well heres my take on it.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/23
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/25
Okay so its not MY take per say but its still a… take
Those two idiots deserve a … GET OVER HERE!!
oh god. They didn’t scream “FINISH HER” and rip out her heart did they? But that really is horrible.
Fatalit… SMACK
I had to stop myself there
oww
As everyone else has already said, why are they not saying that were imitating the WWE or something like that? Video games are just becoming a cop-out.
See you in hell.
@ Lifeisaglitch: You confuse me sometimes…sad that the post is here, and then doing a Fatality joke. I don’t get it.
thats sick. Those two retards should be locked away for life.
a sad story, i actually wonder how much truth is in the mortal combat thing. could that be just them pushing blame on to something?
and from my own past i can say that watching wrestling on tv made me do more violent stuff than playing any other game
This is just…moronic.
I don’t care that they might blame video games for this, I want to see those teenagers be punished for their crime.
@Scott
Like i said had to smack myself… Its all just so rrrrrrrr
rrrrrr this is just really the kind of stuff thats easy to get pissed about… Besides screw it if gamers get a lil bad press a little girl got killed…. Making jokes are a good way to cope though…
Also Scott il stop if ya lay of the Hiroshima jokes…. (ya see stuff slips)
It takes a special person to go to your girlfriends house, get drunk, play video games and then go start beating up on her little sister… and what kind of sister helps her drunken idiot boyfriend beat up and kill her own sister.
Hold these kids as adults, since they seem to think they’re adult enough to hold their liquor, and throw them both away for the full 48 years they could be given.
This makes me sick.
Personally, I think the “alcohol + teens = trouble” is more to blame than video games here. When was the last time a drunken teenager was a good thing? Not to mention the probability is rather high for “lack of parenting” in this case. Leave the video games out of this one, as there’s more to the story than that one small aspect.
Im still confused if there was this supposed witness why didn’t he/she call the cops.
Our modern mindset is noone is accountable for their own actions. Ludicrous.
He committed the crime, she committed the crime. Any outside influences are secondary. The parents need a butt whipping as well.
Why were they home drunk with a 7 year old? Who the heck made that decision!?
There are plenty of other wrestling genres out there if one needed a scapegoat. They hear the kid is drunk and playing videogames and boom. If they were watching backyard wrestling channel or WWE we’d never hear about the story.
You’re number one, Jack ..|..
As for being influence by video games… I don’t think it matters at all, Its not like a Kick to the face is something exclusive to Mortal Kombat, but for some reason people enjoy dragging video games into stories like these.
I could punch a kid to death, what influenced me could be watching Rocky the night before but some idiot will find an un opened copy of Fight Night Round 3 next to my 360 and blame it on that. Its all because of a lack of understanding of video games, something the generation in charge is scared of so assume its the devil.
How the heck do the prosecution justify blaming a 10 year old computer game for something done by drunk unsupervised teens. Isn’t it prosecutions job to blame and prosecute the kids?
barfs… morons blaming it on videogames obviously..
I guess the whole “Stupidity may cause death” thing is sadly lacking in the detail that those whom it kills may not always be the idiot. Course good old jack must have luck that even god would envy…because that man is as dumb as a hunk of lead and twice as dense.
This is just sad… and it is sad that they are blaming it on something other than pure and simple poor decisions. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.
@Maveriick
Im not sure if this will make you feel better but the whole thing about MK was said by the prosecutor not the prosecuted.
I liked how when I read the article there was a violent advert for Universe at War. Just an unfortunate coincidence.
Why do they never blame “stupidity” as the reason for these things. People want to find a reason why things happened – like videogames, Jackass, or Beavis and Butthead. You know what, maybe some people are just f@#%ing stupid.
The parents left a child at home to watch over another child. There was alcohol readily available in the home, and apparently the child gets to have a boyfriend/girlfriend over while the parents are at work.
The only reason I could think of blaming Mortal Kombat here, is if the child somehow learned how to shoot a fireball from playing the game, or fly across the room covered in lightning.
As long as the kid called “Mortal Kombat”, then it’s ok
Sadly enough the media attention probably gave MK a little boost in profit…
This is why all niggers need to be in jail.
Also, pwnt
@PoJo
They didn’t call MK the prosecutor is using it for deity knows what…
This is just Sad…. People Just saying Because he played A Videogame (Not Specifying what it is) the death is Because he was playing a videogame. He Even said “‘I Dont know, I was Just Drunk.’” People are just blaming Videogames for Every Act of Violance Linked to some Videogamer. The People that Act on Violance through Videogames Were Allready Violant to Begin With. (And Yes i have a Habbit with Caps at the Begining of Every other Word… I Cant seem To Break it)
How fucking stupid…
Hmmm, Maybe i’m too young but i don’t remember the body slam being in MK, or any wrestling moves. And I’m a bit confused on where these witnesses were to see all that and didn’t do anything then
I don’t think I cold stand to live in such a violent country. Especially when there is a scapegoat for everything. I mean what, didn’t things like this happen in the 70s and before there were video games?
Video games are not to blame here, it’s just that pure stupidity that some parent would have left alcohol in a house for the teen to get drunk on. That is if there’s evidence of that. With every news story that comes up about kids doing “wrestling” can have someone end up dead, it’s just stupendous on how Parents haven’t edjumicated their Kids about anything.
Besides that, I think it’s just a cop out to even blame it on being drunk too. It’s just a sad story.
I guarantee that the Mortal Kombat defense is something they cooked up as an excuse for their actions. After all, it’s the easy target for the MSM, which constantly thinks that pushing a button somehow equates a training program to go on a shooting rampage and know how to fight.
Look, LOOK!
“When asked why he refused to stop, Roberts answered “I don’t know; I was drunk.””
Not “I don’t know; I saw it on Mortal Kombat and thought it was cool.”
Sounds like one big excuse, as others have said. I mean come on. Wrestling on TV shows body slams all the time. And here’s the thing, who care where or how they learned it. Does that matter?? I mean do we go after the driving instructors when people crash their cars? Take some responsibility people for your own actions! Sheesh!
Yeah, I’m pretty much a subscriber to the twisted people will play twisted videogames, but the videogames arn’t what makes them twisted to begin with. We’ve had mass murderers and school shootings, and sicker crimes, long long before videogames came along.
And yet I fear JT is rubbing his hands with glee.
Ni—-sexxorz, you need to get cancer.
Scott, you need to delete his message.
Tragic, tragic tale. I know that have no answers for what causes things like this in the world, or creates the mentality where people can commit such acts, but someone must somewhere.
And ditto Kainti’s last post.
Funny though how he was flamebaiting and everybody just ignored him, go EL community!
That’s it. I’m building a tower and locking my daughter in it for the next twenty years.
I say they nuke the site from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Set them on fire.
I have a seven year old daughter and I can guarantee if an older sibling’s boyfriend/girlfriend ‘accidentally’ killed her, the prosecutor would have no one left to prosecute, if you pick up what I’m puttin’ down. No alcohol or MK excuses required on my behalf.
Also, Lifeisaglitch: NOT funny. You shouldn’t have even typed what you did. You obviously new better.
I know this is completely out of context, but that chick in the pic is pretty attractive…
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Anyways, I say they need to start looking to thing other than videos games as an ala by for killings. I know alot of people say the same but, I can’t stress it enough. We need to win this war in order to preserve the righteousness that it video games for the latter generations.
Scott..
listen to Kainti and Tom, and now me, delete that message, some people find that offensive you know…