据英国每日邮报的消息，英国当地一33岁女性数月内每日沉迷于名为Small World的社交游戏，忽视了对家庭的照顾致使她的三个小孩经常处于挨饿的状态，她圈养的狗也因为缺少食物饿死。

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她的家被垃圾环抱，楼道和她圈养的德国牧羊犬和猎犬也是肮脏不堪。肯特（位于英国东南部）当地的法官判定该女性（按照法律规定隐匿姓名）暂时禁止再继续使用互联网。

检控方Deepak Kapur表示，该女性的三个分别只有9岁、10岁和13岁的孩子被忽视长达6个月的时间。自今年2月份以来，这个家庭就因为该妇女迷恋社交游戏而处于糟糕的状况。

该女性在被审问时表示，她圈养的两只狗（德国牧羊犬和一只猎犬）是被她饿死的，因为这段时间她一直忙于电脑游戏没有时间去兼顾这些。

早先她收到一条玩facebook旗下游戏Small World的邀请，后来她迅速沉迷于这款游戏不能自拔。

检控方在调查后发现，该女性在最初接触Small World后差不多每天只花一个小时左右的时间，但是发展到后来她沉迷到每天大概只睡两个小时。虽然她还照顾小孩的饮食（她已经不再煮饭了，只是买便当之类的熟食）以及送他们上学，但是其他的她已经完全不管了。

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判决之后，三个小孩会暂时被送进教养院。该女性除了被禁止接触互联网，还被禁止接触动物。

A mother neglected her three children and let her dogs starve to death because she was so obsessed with a computer game.

The 33-year-old woman played the Small World game almost non-stop on the internet for months while her children were reduced to eating cold baked beans straight from the tin with their fingers.

Her home became filthy, with rubbish strewn over the floor and the bodies of her two dogs, a German shepherd and a lurcher, left for two months in the dining room it was revealed.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been given a suspended jail sentence and banned from using the internet by a judge in Kent.

The horror only came to an end when a neighbour peered through the letterbox and alerted the authorities, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

The woman’s children, aged nine, ten and 13, were badly neglected for six months, said Deepak Kapur, prosecuting.

When officers arrived at the house in Swanley, Kent, in February the woman told them it was ‘in a bit of a mess’ They then saw rubbish all over the floors in all of the rooms.

The woman tried to block officers from entering the dining room and when asked why she replied: ‘All right, my dogs are in there. They are dead. I killed them. ‘I probably starved them, probably because I have been playing the computer game all the time.’

She received an invitation from a friend on Facebook to play Small World and had very quickly become hooked.

The game featuring characters such a wizards, dwarves, orcs and giants is played like a traditional board game but online.

‘She started playing initially for an hour aday in late 2009 but since August of that year it had become an obsession to the point where she was only getting two hours’ sleep a night,’ said the prosecutor.

‘She still managed to feed the children and get them to school but accepted she let everything else go.

‘Afterwards, it became so overwhelming she didn’t know where to start.

‘It got to the stage where she only bought food that didn’t need cooking.

‘ Allan Compton, defending, said the woman had been a devoted and competent mother until tragedy struck some years ago with the death of her husband from a heart attack.

‘She retreated into this virtual world provided by her laptop computer,’ he said.

‘She shut herself off from the outside world.’ Mr Compton said the house was now habitable.

The children had been taken into care, but she hoped to be reunited with them in the future, he said.

The mother was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, and ordered to do 75 hours’ unpaid work.

She was banned from keeping animals. She had admitted three charges of child cruelty and two of animal neglect. Judge

Jeremy Carey told her: ‘Your life went very badly wrong.

Your children were badly neglected indeed. There was decay and filth all around.’ Judge Carey banned the woman from access to the internet ‘to assist you to resist the temptation to return to this virtual world’.（source：daily mail）