From scifiweekly:

An Arkansas mother was arrested after her 3-year-old daughter died sweltering in a closed car while her mother played EverQuest, police told the northwest Arkansas Morning News. Mary Christina Cordell, 36, faces a felony charge of manslaughter in the death of her daughter, Brianna Cordell, of Springdale, Ark., police spokesman Brian Simmons told the newspaper.
Cordell?who goes by her middle name, Christina?was being held in the Washington County jail on Aug. 25 awaiting a bond hearing, the newspaper reported. If convicted, she faces three to 10 years in prison and a fine up of to $10,000.
Authorities said Cordell and her boyfriend, Eric Long, 21, may have been so fixated with the online role-playing game EverQuest that she neglected to pay adequate attention to Brianna's whereabouts on Aug. 8, the day the child died, the newspaper reported. Brianna was found dead in the front seat of her mother's car at about 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot of their apartment complex.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday September 04, 2003 at 10:22 AM
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