Resident Evil 5 May Have Exposed Child To Real Evil - Polidicks

[img]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/kotaku_top_with_logo.gif[/img] [url=http://kotaku.com/5703226/resident-evil-5-may-have-exposed-child-to-real-evil]Source[/url] [release]Resident Evil 5 May Have Exposed Child To Real Evil A father in the Canadian province of British Columbia contacted the police on Monday after receiving sexually explicit messages from a man his 12-year-old daughter had met playing while Resident Evil 5. The father, a resident of Nanaimo, British Columbia, told authorities that the message exchange began on Monday when his daughter was engaged in an online multiplayer game of Resident Evil 5 for the PlayStation 3. The conversation soon moved to a laptop his daughter was using. The father took the laptop tried to ascertain the identity of the man she was communicating with, at which point the messenger became antagonistic and the messages became sexually explicit. "It was scary," said the father on Tuesday. "He started saying some very obscene things to me. These are openings to potential sex offenders, really." While the sexually explicit messages were not about his daughter specifically, they were so disturbing the father called the police, and an investigation is now underway. The father later discovered that the person sending the messages, who claimed to be a 22-year-old man from overseas, had allegedly been communicating with his daughter via email for two months. Is this another case of an older man prowling for children via online gaming? It's hard to say. The story doesn't mention any sexually explicit emails or communications with the daughter aside from the incident on Monday. It may have just been an immature reaction to suddenly facing the questioning of a parent. Indeed there is no indication that the alleged predator knew the child's age at all. However there is a clear message here. Whatever this man's intentions were, he allegedly spent two months communicating with the daughter without her father's knowledge. Incidents like this might be avoided with more parental supervision of internet and online gaming time. I'll let someone else argue whether or not a 12-year-old girl should be playing Resident Evil 5.[/release]

Isn't RE5 an 18?

[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;26429010]Isn't RE5 an 18?[/QUOTE] It's not 12 for sure.

[quote=weekendwarrior;26429010]isn't re5 an 18?[/quote] acb: Ma15+ bbfc: 18 cero: D esrb: M oflc: R18 pegi: 18+

In before it's the parents fault.

Probably not a pedo, anyone that's playing RE5 should be over the age of consent anyway.

[QUOTE=Portalist;26429040]In before it's the parents fault.[/QUOTE] Well it obviously is, who the fuck doesn't watch their child's online interactions? Especially when the child is definitely not old enough to be using the internet yet.

It's not illegal for her to play it, just illegal to buy it.

This story can't be true, it said she was playing it on PS3, and as we all know the PS3 has no games. :downs: [editline]1st December 2010[/editline] Can't you idiots tell I'm joking?

[QUOTE=Big Ben;26429146]This story can't be true, it said she was playing it on PS3, and as we all know the PS3 has no games. :downs:[/QUOTE] She couldn't have been playing it on the Xbox 360. We all know it costs more than the amount Germany owed Britain after World War 2 to pay for a years Gold. :frogdowns: Like said, it's the parents fault. Wouldn't surprise me if a Lawsuit came out of this though.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26429088]Well it obviously is, who the fuck doesn't watch their child's online interactions? Especially when the child is definitely not old enough to be using the internet yet.[/QUOTE] The internet has an age restriction?

[QUOTE=Portalist;26429040]In before it's the parents fault.[/QUOTE] it's the game's fault obviously ban video games they corrupt our precious young minds

I'd say he was probably a paedophile, but it's easy to jump to conclusions. Do people ever do anything but try and make witty observations nowadays?

[QUOTE=nath2009uk;26429231]She couldn't have been playing it on the Xbox 360. We all know it costs more than the amount Germany owed Britain after World War 2 to pay for a years Gold. :frogdowns: Like said, it's the parents fault. Wouldn't surprise me if a Lawsuit came out of this though.[/QUOTE] The father, a resident of Nanaimo, British Columbia, told authorities that the message exchange began on Monday when his daughter was engaged in an online multiplayer game of Resident Evil 5 for the PlayStation 3. So no she couldn't have been playing it on the 360 as she was on the PS3 which the article clearly states.

This is why games have age restrictions.

[QUOTE=CoolCorky;26429249]it's the game's fault obviously ban video games they corrupt our precious young minds[/QUOTE] There's a group trying to do that. [url]www.mavav.org[/url]

i haven't heard about child harassment via internet on the news in a while.

[quote=Kotaku]from a man his 12-year-old daughter had met [b]playing while Resident Evil 5.[/b][/quote] How do you Resident Evil 5

[QUOTE=Portalist;26429040]In before it's the parents fault.[/QUOTE] just because you say that doesn't mean it isn't you know

Emails? Who uses emails to chat anymore?

I came to this thread hoping that the kid began dabbling in black magic voodoo zombie shit and had zombified her family. I was disappointed.

Was I the only person who caught "another case of an older man prowling for children via online gaming"? When did it happen before?

What I want to know is did they jail the pervert already?

This reminds me of the kid who played GTA 4 then went out and took his Grandmother's car for a joy ride.

This is gross.

[QUOTE=RedSponge;26429929]Emails? Who uses emails to chat anymore?[/QUOTE] I do. It's great for onetime chats with someone.

[QUOTE=imadaman;26428990]He started saying some very obscene things to me.[/QUOTE] first time on the internet it seems

[QUOTE=faze;26429364]There's a group trying to do that. [url]www.mavav.org[/url][/QUOTE] I think they're a troll site. [quote]Textspeak Linked to Violent Video Games The China Post reports that a Taiwanese psychiatrist at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei has concluded the first studies linking violent video games and 'textspeak', an awful slang language spoken by a subculture of underground gamers and computer hackers. Textspeak is the process of shortening words and adding numbers to a text message to make it "cooler." The form of text messaging is highly annoying. One example suffice: "RU cmin out 2nite?" Deciphered: "Are you coming out tonight?" [...] Twelve young adults were given tests in an experiment Dr. Chow conducted at his hospital. They were required to play one popular game, "PS2:Real Three Kingdoms;Nonpareil 4 Generations," for half an hour. Blood circulation in their brains was scanned. The entire process was repeated half an hour later. Chow found the blood circulation in the frontal lobes of all the samples reduced. "Reduction in blood circulation in the frontal lobe," the psychiatrist said, "indicates that it may affect language proficiency." The psychiatrist urges parents to limit the exposure of violent video games to their children if “they don't want to receive any more 'textspeak' messages."[/quote]

[QUOTE=magravn;26429863]How do you Resident Evil 5[/QUOTE] You accidentally the whole zombie.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26429088]Well it obviously is, who the fuck doesn't watch their child's online interactions? Especially when the child is definitely not old enough to be using the internet yet.[/QUOTE] Wait, what? I'm about this girl's age, and my parents don't monitor my online movements. Grated I don't think they know how, that's irrelevant. 12 is plenty old enough to be using the internet. I was playing on the computer when I was 2. I taught myself to read so I could do just that, play my dad's game of DOOM and Phantasmagoria. Anyways, I also play rated M games. Left 4 Dead, HL2, and GTA IV just to name a few. Just because this girl was talking to a person online does NOT mean that he had intentions of harming her in any way. People today just overreact. The old man at the park is a pedophile to everyone. The nice guy offering candy is trying to hurt the kids. It's simply foolish. Yes, the guy acted inappropriately and immaturely, but that doesn't make him out to hurt the girl. I think that children should be more well educated about how to tell a pedophile from a person just trying to make friends. Well, that's my 2 cents. Continue your discussion.