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Man Kills Toddler For Cursing During Video Game

An Illinois man was recently found guilty of murder after authorities say he fatally struck his girlfriend’s 3-year-old for cursing while playing Mortal Kombat.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A Waukegan man who said he was angered that his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son cursed while playing a video game was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday for the child’s beating death.

Sometime after 11 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2011, the boy supposedly let slip an expletive, followed by “he got me” as he was playing “Mortal Kombat” while waiting for dinner, prosecutors said.

Thomas Albea, who was 18 at the time, later admitted to police that he responded by striking X’Zavion Charleston several times.

During the second and final day of Albea’s murder trial, a videotaped statement was played in court in which Albea admitted to police that he struck the child “four or five” times in response to the boy’s comment.

The incident occurred in the Waukegan apartment where Albea usually stayed with his girlfriend. X’Zavion died at about 5 p.m. the next day at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

During interviews with police the day the boy died, Albea initially told investigators he struck the child once, according to evidence presented at trial.

But after Waukegan detectives said doctors described the child’s injuries as recent and caused by several blows, Albea admitted he struck X’Zavion multiple times.

“I think I hit him like four or five times,” Albea told detectives in the videotaped statement.

SMH!!! Just terrible

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