A 22-year-old mother from Jacksonsville, Florida, in the United States has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son when he would not stop crying while she was playing the popular online game Farmville.

 

According to The Florida Times-Union, Alexandra V. Tobias was arrested following the death of her son, Dylan Lee Edmondson in January. Tobias stated that her three-month old baby had been crying while she was trying to play the popular game via the equally popular social networking site Facebook.

 

This infuriated her so much that she shook the baby, had a cigarette to calm herself down and then proceeded to shake him again. Tobias also said that little Dylan might have “hit his head during the shaking”.

 

She entered her guilty plea yesterday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud and her sentencing hearing has been scheduled for December. Although a second-degree murder charge carries a sentence of up to life imprisonment, Tobias’ sentence might be less according to the prosecutor Richard Mantei. He stated that state guidelines allow for 25 to 50 years of prison time.

 

At the beginning of the year an Italian man went to hospital after his son stabbed him in the neck following an argument about his FIFA ’09 skills. 

 

 

Correction. We corrected the original sentence that read: "A 22-year-old mother from Jacksonsville, Florida, in the United States has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son because of the popular online game Farmville."