Do video games and movies influence people? Some would have you think not. Foxnews.com reports the following tragedy. I'm not trying to suggest this young man is not fully responsible for what he did...I am suggesting that what we allow to enter into our hearts and minds affects the way we think and sometimes the way we act!
"GREELEY, Colo. — A Johnstown teenager has been ordered to stand trial after a 7-year-old girl in his care died in what police said was a beating that imitated the "Mortal Kombat" video game.
A Weld County judge ruled Friday there was enough evidence to warrant a trial for Lamar Roberts, 17, accused of child abuse resulting in the Dec. 6 death of Zoe Garcia and child abuse resulting in serious injury. A trial date will be set after a June 20 court hearing.
His girlfriend, Heather Trujillo, 16, Zoe's half-sister, is scheduled to stand trial July 7. Both will be tried as adults.
Zoe died of blunt-force trauma to the head after she was hit, kicked and slammed to the floor as the teens reportedly re-enacted the video game, authorities have alleged. The two were baby-sitting while the sisters' mother, Dana Trujillo, 30, was at work.
During Friday's court hearing, Johnstown Police Detective Kathy Halldorson testified that Trujillo told police Roberts pushed Zoe, twisted her arms and held her ankles as she struggled to breathe.Trujillo and Roberts tried reviving Zoe under running water before calling the sisters' mother and 911, according to court affidavits."
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FOF "Plugged in" writes,
"Could it be that a steady diet of Sex (and its prolific knock-offs) over the past decade has lowered the cultural common denominator? Have Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha made women feel better about themselves by not just excusing, but glamorizing their baser instincts? "Lisa" didn't give her real name to ABC News, but she did tell them that she started watching Sex and the City when she was 14, the same year she lost her virginity, cheated on her boyfriend with seven different guys in one week and began ordering cocktails at bars she snuck into. In her words: "When you're that age, you try to emulate the people on TV. Carrie smoked, so I smoked. Samantha looked at hooking up with random people as not a big deal, so that's what I did too. It wasn't Sex and the City's fault. I love the show, but I think it made it a little easier to justify my behavior.'"
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