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The headline may be straight out of 1993, but this story is anything but funny. According to the Denver Post, 16 year old Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend Lamar Roberts were babysitting Heather’s 7 year old sister Zoe when they became drunk and decided to perform Mortal Kombat moves on the young girl. Zoe died of “blunt force trauma” to the central nervous system after repeated punches and kicks. According to arrest affidavits, the killing blow was apparently a back kick that Zoe didn’t get up from, so the teens tried to revive her, to no avail.

Trujillo and Roberts were charged with child abuse resulting in death (a class II felony) and are being held on $100, 000 bond.

There are more sordid details in the news post, including the fact that Zoe had begged the teens to stop, but that Roberts was “too drunk” to listen, and that they cracked an egg in her mouth to see if she was “messing around with them”. All in all, this is one of the saddest (and most disgusting) news stories to come out this year. The story hints at a long history of abuse and neglect among the family, which will surely be overlooked by anti-game politicians eager to benefit from the tragedy.

Read [Denver Post] Via [Kotaku]