I hope you guys take this with the frendly somewhat humorous, somewhat serious intent. You can research a stock silly , both long or short and there really is a process of diminished return for all involved.This is for all you guys
who spend too much time out here including myself.You Amatians seem to have lost complete perspective though.
CINCINNATI, June 16 (Reuter) - A 24-year-old woman was released on bond on Monday after pleading not guilty to charges of child neglect that investigators said might have grown out of an addiction to the Internet.
Sandra Hacker was jailed on Sunday on three counts of child endangering after her estranged husband, Alexander, reported that she was spending up to 12 hours a day at her computer and leaving her three children to take care of themselves.
Police said they found broken glass, other debris and human feces on the walls of a playroom of her apartment, where she allegedly kept the toddlers locked up while preoccupied with the computer.
The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted David Greenfield, a psychologist from Hartford, Connecticut, as saying the case had all the earmarks of ``Internet Addiction Disorder.''
Greenfield, who has done considerable study on the problem, said the disorder overtakes its victims in much the same way that people get hooked on gambling.
``The normalcies for time and space disappear,'' he told The newspaper. ``It becomes a pretty powerful drug.''
Hacker told police that his wife's computer obsession led to the breakup of their marriage. The three children, ages 5, 3, and 2, were temporarily placed in his custody pending disposition of Mrs. Hacker's case.
She was freed on bond following a court hearing on Monday at which she pleaded not guilty.
17:50 06-16-97
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