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Scumbag gets 21 years for killing baby over a videogame

Posted Aug 31, 2008 at 11:12AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Slime

Twenty one years is simply nowhere near enough time for murdering an 18 day old child just because he interrupted a videogame, and how does this piece of slime get away with manslaughter? Pretty damn revolting stuff, makes you just shake your head and wonder what's going on with our legal system.

Details after the jump.

On Oct. 26th, 2007, Rene Edward Barrios was charged with looking after his girlfriends 18 day old infant who lay sleeping in the next room. Presently, the infant started to cry, sending Barrios into a rage, pausing the game, he went into the room, grabbed the child, shook him and then hit him before returning to his gaming session. By the time Barrios went back to check on the baby he was blue and unconscious, the poor child died at the hospital and Barrios was immediately arrested.

Barrios has plead guilty to manslaughter and will be sentenced to serve between 10.5 and 21 years in prison.

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This is the kind of thing that gives video games a bad rap even though the person that did this would have possibly did something crazy anyway if he was mad about something else. I hope he gets it in the face and rear hard in the slammer that piece of trash. Having children of my own really upsets me to hear this news.

# . — Strongbadunit2 2008-08-31 13:37

wow just shows how stupid some people are...flammingcowz actually likes the killing of babies.

I hope to god you don't find yourself funny, because if you should not be allowed to exist.

# omg — NDWolfwood 2008-08-31 13:39

this a**hole deserves to be put in jail for life!!

i mean, killing his "girlfriend's" child????

Actually, i think he should get the death penalty.

What an a**hole!!

# ... — flammingcowz 2008-08-31 13:42

My friend posted this, is there any way to get it removed?

# WOW... — eggwonder 2008-08-31 13:43

You people make it sound like what he did was on purpose. He did do something terrible but im sure his intent wasn't to kill the kid. Some people just don't know that a rough shaking could kill an infant. In fact i didn't find out myself until a few years ago.(not by killing a baby)

All im saying is that you guys/gals are making it sound like he walked into the room and said "im gon kill you baby" and shook the crap out of it trying to do it. He just wanted the kid to be quiet. He knows he made a big mistake hence the reason he plead guilty.(just read it)

# forgot to say... — eggwonder 2008-08-31 13:48

if he killed the baby on purpose why would he take it to the hospital or even so much as check on the child and find it blue and unconscious?

# dumb*** — corytheidiot 2008-08-31 13:55

This is what makes games look bad. Stupid (AWWW!!!! No word harsh enough). Learn there is a difference between a recreational thing and life. Bust a control, like my brother has done so many times, when you get pissed. Don't take it out on people, let alone an infant. This joker needs to be dealt with execution style, but without the blind fold. He is not deserving of freedom after this.

# .. — kraft 2008-08-31 14:02

I hope he drops the soap

# .. — kraft 2008-08-31 14:05

He didn't just shake it, he shook it and then hit the baby.

How do you think an infant like that would react to getting hit.

There's no reason ever to hit a 2 week old baby

# hit... — eggwonder 2008-08-31 14:20

hit can be interpreted too many different ways... it could have been a light slap to the bottom...

# What a... — xxjunior01xx 2008-08-31 14:24

*****head! That ***** should be sentenced for life. How can you do that to your girlfriends baby?!! Hope they ***** him up in prison for that!

# SUUUURE — cmonkey99 2008-08-31 14:30

Sure he did, *****

# maybe — joseph10444 2008-08-31 14:35

maybe you'd thought youd get some attention from this..

you did but now you're using an excuse?

# Umm... — Strodemstro 2008-08-31 14:36

What game was he playing?

# Attention? — slack04 2008-08-31 14:39

you really think he wanted attention by writing this? on a video game board? let the guy erase the comment (then erase the replies too, please...)

# arf arf — slack04 2008-08-31 14:40

wooof woof bark bark. (insert angry comment here) bark! woof!!

# Death Penanlty — Steven 2008-08-31 14:47

Just kill him, no point in letting him rot in jail. Him sitting in jail would just eat away at our tax dollars, do the baby a favor shake the crap out of him and hit him until he turns blue. Then well know he's dead. As the saying goes "eye for an eye". If the dumbnut would have said that he didn't like infants he should have not been given the responsibility of taking care of the kid. It might have saved him from being subdued by Bubba and having to deal with a cocsandwhich (Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantamano Bay).

# Uh... — Vanaheimx 2008-08-31 14:52

Keep your opinions out of your article. It's very unprofessional.

THe point of news is to give it from a neutral standpoint.

# 21 years... — Extreme_Dude23 2008-08-31 14:55

that's it? this douche should be put away for life

# an eye for an eye makes the world blind — MyDixieNormous 2008-08-31 14:55

Let him rot in prison and think about what he did, it would be much worse than death.

# . — xxSuiseiseki 2008-08-31 14:56

Que Jack Thompson.

# Friend? — RavenSPe 2008-08-31 14:56

Even if this is true how can someone like that be a friend? Your both a couple of sick F***S.

" you really think he wanted attention by writing this? on a video game board?"

Slack04, as pathetic as it is, yes. You must be new to online/comments/forums if you don't know that people come on these for attention and to feel special.

# Who cares if its "unprofessional" — x0rcy5t 2008-08-31 14:57

I wouldn't have given this from a "neutral" standpoint either, its too sickening.

# +) — x0rcy5t 2008-08-31 14:58

I hope he likes extra mayo.

# ... — Eclipze_ 2008-08-31 15:07

Hate the saying an eye for an eye. Thats for immature people. A better saying would be two wrongs don't make a right.

I agree with eggwonder up there. I don't think the guy did it on purpose. He probably just doesn't know to what extent a baby can take. People are making it seem like he went in the room to kill the baby..

# This is — whaleshark 2008-08-31 15:07

One sick *****. hope he rots in hell. I cant believe he got away with 21 years. I hope to god that the devil himself rapes his lifeless corpse in his tombstone. Poor child :( And this is when we need a lawyer that is able to put a Douche bag like this man in jail for life. or even better, get him killed. God bless to the child. May he have a happy life in heaven. :( Good hopes to the remaining family, and hopefully this scum will rot with the rest of the scum on earth.

# eye for an eye — Steven 2008-08-31 15:10

murderers and rapists who have either plead guilty or have hard evidence to prove that they were the culprit should be given the death penalty. It would allow prisons to have more space for new convicts and would save money so we may hire more police officers. In my area, budget cuts are made more often than ever. People are losing their jobs and we are paying more tax dollars to balance the losses. Prisons are becoming more crowded so using the death penalty more frequently would benefit both the police force and help protect the American people.

# ... — TheLastGuitarHero 2008-08-31 15:11

Yeah man who cares really? So the guy gave his opinion, it didn't affect the article none, and from what I can tell, everyone is agreeing with him anyway.

# Hope he rots in hell — Doom_master1122 2008-08-31 16:07

21 years isn't good enough. He needs death penalty. I'm a person that votes death penalty back in all states for scum bags like him, but no, the government rather slap wrists and send them on there way.

I'm not looking for an argument, but for the people who say, "2 wrongs don't make a right," or something similar... Well think in someone else shoes. If you had a child or someone dear to you killed by some scum bag, I'm sure you would want them to have the death penalty, for claiming the life of your loved one.

Think about that.

# =\ — eaglebaize 2008-08-31 16:07

Please understand that I by no means support this person's actions. In fact, if he killed my child (I don't have any, but still), I'd probably deal with him myself. He might not even make it to the authorities, let alone prison. That being said, I feel that some of the people commenting on this article are going a little overboard. Some of you are sounding pretty violent yourselves. I mean, we don't even know for sure if this guy really had intentions of killing this infant. Yes, it was bad to even so much as lay a harmful finger on the child, but seriously. Can't we just chill and give more thoughts to our comments before posting them? I apologize if I somehow offended anyone.

# you can go to hell. — NarooN 2008-08-31 16:17

Doesn't matter if it was intentional or not. He didn't even have any business or legitimate reason to shake the baby violently, let alone hit it. I don't care if he plead guilty, that doesn't just magically erase what he did.

What he deserves is to be ass-raped every weekday with nothing but rusty pipes and beehives. No death penalty, just pure ass-rape.

# ... — StingBlah 2008-08-31 16:21

@Steven77: It's *****meatsandwi ch*

Also, giving death penalty to whomever pleads guilty is certainly a way to get more people to plead guilty...returd.

# .. — Binary 2008-08-31 17:00

and take Anger Management class's daily.

# ... — Binary 2008-08-31 17:05

man if I was the father of the baby and a huge guy. I would of pick that scumbag up and shake the ***** out of him just see how he like it.

nah I rather just shoot the bastard and get it over with.

# flammingcowz and TouchDaSkeleton — Binary 2008-08-31 17:10

you sirs are *****ing idiot. how you like it if somebody shakes you and punch where you cant breath anymore? See who's *****ing PWNED or laughing now.

# wtf? — Eclipze_ 2008-08-31 17:31

Like I said, two wrongs don't make a right. So you'd rather kill people than pay some taxes? You'd rather kill people just for space in a prison? (and of course I don't mean you actually killing them yourself) That eye for an eye thing is exactly what I said it was, immature. Especially if it comes to people like this man that killed the baby, he could have done it by mistake yet people are wanting to put him to death..?

# i've read somewhere before that... — lexcavaj 2008-08-31 17:34

according to studies, a baby's cry is that powerfull and stressful that it is even used by the army for torturing and/or disabling an enemy. that being said, i think this may have played a role with the man's action leading to the very unfaithful tragedy. stress from both the game and the baby's cry may have been too much for his not-so-stable/capable mind. true, what he's done is unimaginable and unforgivable, but we also have to see it in a different angle. again, i am not defending this scumbag, im just providing another overview of the incident.

# ... — TouchDaSkeleton 2008-08-31 17:41

wonder if he was playing fight night

# I am thinking in others shoes. — Eclipze_ 2008-08-31 17:42

And I would not want to put the guy to death. Especially considering this could have been a mistake. Either way killing the guy wouldn't benefit me in any way (it wouldn't bring the child back). And this "scum back" could have been a member of my family that did it on accident (which it most likely was in this case). Its not like he was some random guy who walked into the house and killed the child, he was asked to watch the child by someone (family I would think).

The saying an eye for an eye sums up to one word: Revenge. Two wrongs don't make a right, and killing this guy would do nothing beside have another death.

# I sure hope justice comes in a form as... — lavino 2008-08-31 17:48

his new boy friend called BIG AL likes to keep dropping his soap and ask Rene to pick it up. All he will choking in jail will be someone's chicken and lots of it.

# error — ALLOUTKILLA 2008-08-31 18:20

Where it says "pausing the..." I think it should say game not "gam"

# mmm — pspsampsp 2008-08-31 18:25

i dont think he should be put to the death penalty (NDWolfwood and others ) as the death penalty is unfair as its been proven that white people , rich people and women are less likley to be put to death even if theyve commited exactly the same crimes as someone else and i was just wondering what would everyone be saying if a women done this , owuld you say she was probably stressed or has a mental illness or would you say exactly the same thing ? i think what he done is right but maybe he couldnt get the baby to stop crying and didnt know what to do as it is pretty stressful when a babys crying cause when was looking after my little sister i didnt know what to do when she started crying and i just wanted to stop her crying anyway i could but luckily i didnt shake her or anything i just yelled which i shouldnt have done but i did because i was stressed.

# . — OverlordXenu 2008-08-31 18:40

How could that piece of ***** scumbag interrupt a guy playing a video game??? I'm glad he got rid of that baby.

# this comment should be deleted — GW2 2008-08-31 19:04

because its just sick.

# ... — Binary 2008-08-31 19:07

I Argee and remove all the reply's

Where o Where o is the mods!

# ... — Binary 2008-08-31 19:09

-blinks-

WOW

# Dude — Binary 2008-08-31 19:11

GET THE ***** OUTTA HERE!

How could you say something like that. You go burn in *****ing hello you stupid son of a *****.

# Idiot — Neo-Tech 2008-08-31 19:20

What's more important, a baby dying or playing your video games? ....Baby dying. You probably have no care for children or other people, you always thin games comes first, well it doesn't.

# What is this? — Neo-Tech 2008-08-31 19:21

This is absolutely ridiculous, 21 years and that's it? It should be at least a minimum of 30 years, and a full 30 years. Because after 20 years he will come back out again and you never know most of the time people do it again.

# uh.. — Soupman 2008-08-31 19:25

***** 30 years he should get life.

:( poor baby

# What an insane world we live in! — RobertSze 2008-08-31 19:28

http://www.skyos.org/?q=node/645

# .... — Silver-Tiger 2008-08-31 19:37

wow..... that's just sick....

# ? — Soupman 2008-08-31 19:48

it says this happened on oct 26th, 2007.

why is it getting posted now almost a year later?

has this guy been out of jail this whole time?

# .. — kraft 2008-08-31 19:55

just googled it, i couldnt find any answer to what he's been doing all this time but i'm guessing he hasnt been in prison yet.

as to why its being posted nearly a year later is cause it jsut became news that his sentence will proceed on september 30th

# ***** — Person2 2008-08-31 20:08

flamm go ***** yourself.

# Never! — DeathAngel666 2008-08-31 20:23

it doesnt matter wheter he meant to kill it or not you just never hit a ****ing baby!

# doesn't matter if he didn't mean to — Person2 2008-08-31 20:27

it don't matter if he tried or didn't try to kill the baby the thing is IT WAS A 18 WEEK OLD BABY,WHO THE HELL WOULD SHAKE LET ALONG HIT A NEW BORN BABY.

# Wtf — hairycanary2 2008-08-31 20:32

It's pretty messed up what he did . The ignorant people in here say things like "poor kid ", and "god is going to do this", and ranting the man to get raped by pipes and men themselves . WTF if wrong with you people ? You call yourself religious and turn your backs to show no remorse to a human . If you do believe in god then he will forgive all and that is something that takes a better man to do . Pray for the people's family and for the man to get what he deserves. It was something that HE did and will pay for it .

God bless the family, the man and the child that rest's in peace .

# when i come to power — PS3 OUTSIDER 2008-08-31 21:49

when i become leader of the world people will be punished by the way they heart there victims.

# ... — T D 2008-08-31 22:08

O_O

I am seriously surprised he got away with manslaughter.

RIP.

# ... — rabbit__ 2008-08-31 22:09

This is y there should be a deth penalty!

But Making him suffer with that on his contions for his life

# - — APerson 2008-08-31 22:50

"what's wrong with the judicial system"

Oh I don't know, nothing? A system that has been developed over hundreds of years. To match the punishment to the crime. etc.

And good god, remove the bad journalism! As journalists you're required to be unbiased and not resort to name calling. Only the cheapest of cheap newspapers here partake in that kind of action.

Yes it's a bad story.

Personally I'm surprised it's as long as 21 years. Don't think I've seen a 1-off murder go for that long. And that murder shouldn't mean capital punishment or life imprisonment - but then again I wasn't brought up with the barbaric and uncivilised "eye for an eye".

# funny? — gehx75 2008-08-31 23:12

I don't think there is anything remotely funny about what happened. I do, however, think it's funny how a lot of people get upset about dumb comments left on an internet forum.

I just have to laugh...and laugh...and laugh....

what's done is done...none of use can change the past, including stupid remarks made to this posting or in regard to anything else as a matter of fact.

just my opinion, take it fwiw.

# flammingcowz, TouchDaSkeleton and teh not so 1337 g@m3r: — Scarface88 2008-08-31 23:53

Let's see yous laugh when relatives of yours die, and most likely of less barbaric causes.

# exactly — eddib 2008-09-01 00:25

finally someone who actually thinks before writing down stuff like 'yeah, kill the ass..'.

you hear this stuff in the news all the time. It just shows that some people are not fit to have babies, mostly because they didn't have a decent education or were not given the chances they deserve, or just because they're plain stupid, ignorent, or addicts.

so yes, you could blame society, esp. in the states (don't know where this particular case was) where you still don't have decent healthcare.

I'm not saying this guy is innocent, but come on people, be realistic. by reading these comments, i wouldn't advice any of you to have babies, since you do do not seem to be able to see things in perspective.

blame society or whatever.

ps: i don't like babies, they ***** on my couch!

# thats bad — Jmak01 2008-09-01 00:38

ive only lived for 21 years and its a long time, i dont think you'd be able to lead a normal life after being in prison that long. with a name like Scumbag, (Scumbag gets 21 years for killing baby over a videogame) its kind of ironic that he did this. I bet he was playing on an xbox 360... i would be stressed if i was playing one of them. I don't think he meant to kill the baby, but that doesnt justify hitting and shaking it, you should never physically harm a baby or child because they can't defend themselves.

# Don't go preaching — Sephiroth86 2008-09-01 00:38

your religion. Not everyone believes in such things as a God.

I think anyone who could raise their hand to a child, of any age, needs to be kicked to within an inch of their life, and left to rot in prison for the remainder of it.

# This guy deserves capital punishment — silwon 2008-09-01 00:40

What a piece of crap this jac*off is, it is however the state of affairs we are forced to live in these days. People's can murder, rape and molest - just don't touch their personal property. I've personally seen people get less time for the crimes i mentioned above than i got for breaking into some empty lake cabins 8 years ago! while in jail i noticed that crimes against people are hardly punished (if at all) , but if it is a crime against property - then that is what the people seem to get irritated about (in america anyway) a example i personally witnessed was: My 22 year old cousin was working at a shelter in chicago and one night she gave a guy his blanket and pillow and he asked for a extra blanket, there were not enough to give anyone any extra, so she had to refuse, he proceeded to beat her to death in front of everyone with his bare hands. this is right after i was arrested for the unauthorized entry into the unoccupied lake cabins, i got four years in the pen while he, a cold blooded murderer received 18-24 months! The excuse was that since he had gotten into trouble before for such things as rape and assault, he was deemed "beyond rehabilitation" he did almost almost two years and was released to go out and destroy society, meanwhile i sat for 35 months and then had 3 years of what they call "intensive supervised probation" Its sad that i stole some worthless sh*t and was considered a greater risk to the community than someone who beat a volunteer to death with their bare hands in front of witnesses. I saw a lot of this crap first hand - rapists getting six months, disgusting child molesters getting six months or less! I believe in capital punishment and i personally should have had my hand cut off, if i knew that was the punishment, i wouldn't have done it in the first place! We are far to lax here maybe that's why this country's going to sh*t. As long as people just keep spending money to buy stupid sh*t everything is fine! Consume and throw away! we seem think it's o.k. with unborn babies so what if it's 18 days old right! just pause, rewind and skip the commercials...everything works out the same in the end. Remember the story about the group of third graders who said they were going to kill their teacher? They were going to be tried as adults for attempted murder if i remember correctly, THIRD GRADERS for talking! Things are getting to be too much in this country anymore. It's sad...

# thats bad — Jmak01 2008-09-01 00:40

# awww :-D — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:43

you guys are so mature :-D youre all right. we should just let him go it was an accident.

GIVE ME A *****ING BREAK have ANY of you bleeding heart retards ever SEEN an EIGHTEEN DAY OLD BABY??? i dont care how stupid this freakshow son of a snake is, nobody is going to mistake an infant LESS THAN THREE WEEKS OLD for the type of person to live through a punch to the head. imagine someone TWELVE+ (12+) TIMES YOUR GODDAMN SIZE PICKING YOU UP, SHAKING YOU, AND HITTING YOU IN THE HEAD! damn people act like you did get hit in the head.

act like you got some goddamn sense people!

# wow — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:45

so what your saying, vanaheimx, is that there could be people reading this article and taking this piece of ***** immigrants side? ***** it then. . . im moving to canada.

# disgusting , not long enough — Bloody_Id 2008-09-01 00:48

i've been playing games since i was 10 , and taking care of kids since 10 , i always quit games when takin care of kids , from new borns up , playing a game is not so damn important to what this man did , i say this man should get 10x beyond that of the death penalty , point blank ,

# wow — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:50

wtf.

yeah i believe you, you seem to be the type who'll run your retarded mouth to an infant without thinking about the consequences.

then again i guess i could assume you are illeterate as well as racist so no one can hold it against you for not reading the article.

# look on the bright side — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:54

as if ther is one. . .

but anyway. . . at least when he gets out video games will be so advanced theyll make his head explode. . .

# - — APerson 2008-09-01 00:56

That's possibly the lowest thing I've seen on the internet. Wrapping up console wars with a childs death. I hope for the futures sake you're mentally sick.

# lol — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:57

woah there, Saddam! you're gonna heart everyone to death!

# . . . — dazmo 2008-09-01 00:59

*****

# - — APerson 2008-09-01 01:01

By your subject header alone you can predict you're a yank.

The rest of the developed world deemed capital punishment uncivilised and barbaric - it's not a smart thing to tie together judicial proceedings and revenge.

Maybe 1 day america will rise upon their bare emotive states, maybe not.

# A Life Should Mean A Life — redfield2007 2008-09-01 01:43

This disgusting waste of life should be hung from a rope...killing is bad enough, but when it's a child...there's no excuse...he should die for what he has done!

# Uh... — Vanaheimx 2008-09-01 03:05

Yeah, that's exactly what I said.

The point of a news article is to give it from a neutral standpoint so the reader can make up his/her own opinions about it.

I said that, not "there could be people reading this article and taking this piece of ***** immigrants side? ***** it then. . . im moving to canada. "

# And... — Vanaheimx 2008-09-01 03:07

You seem the type that will be a complete d*ck to someone.

# Ha ha. — Vanaheimx 2008-09-01 03:10

That first comment is the funniest I've read. Right in front of "What game was he playing?"

# Lord Xenu! — Dragoon 2008-09-01 03:34

I'm glad to see you here, and I support your opinion fully!

The baby should have just shut the f*ck up!

My only regret, my lord, is that I am unable to +rep your comment anymore!

# idoit — Binary 2008-09-01 03:39

blaming on consoles.

never know what the scumbag, could of been a PS3 or a wii.

I swear QJ is full of sick *****s

# Boo hoo — Dragoon 2008-09-01 03:39

Your take on it is wrong as well.

Are we all not God's children? What is a child persay? I am but a child to a 100 year old, as it is all relative.

Are you gonna beat the sh*t out of the kids at school that beat me up because I'm ugly? They're just kids too.

# In Jack Thompsons words — phiyuku 2008-09-01 03:45

A baby killing simulator.

# They — pspman73 2008-09-01 04:32

should torture him for 18 weeks and then kill him with a chainsaw

# 'Mistake' or not: Baby is still Dead, right? — damonous 2008-09-01 05:13

I so have to agree with Steven777 and dazmo on this. We breed the society that we tolerate. --In other words, if our justice systems show leniency for this type of behavior, it promotes to society at-large that "It's ok to be an $@#hole. You'll be punished, maybe --but you'll be free again someday to make another $@#hole decision." And, it's quite ironic how the 'bleeding heart brigade' thinks. Let's see: an 'eye for an eye' is uncivilized or "immature" (according to Eclipze_), but letting the guy get corked night and day for an entire lifetime (a fate "worse than death", per MyDixieNormous) is a humane and rational method of 'corrections'. It's said that Vengeance belongs to God. So, arranging the meeting is what's in order for this guy. Let God decide the punishment and whether this was truly a 'mistake' or the act of a soulless devil. --And, in so doing, not only does society benefit as a whole by not having to feed/maintain this guy's existence for 21yrs behind the slammer ....but it also benefits because A) he wouldn't be ABLE to make the same mistake again ever, and B) other people would think twice before letting their passions overtake them so easily without thought of consequence.

# dazmo — Eclipze_ 2008-09-01 05:45

You need to chill out and read what I said. Where did I say we should let him go because it was an accident? I didn't say that at all. All I'm saying is putting this guy to death, or calling him scum bag (like some are saying) isn't something we should do.

damonous: Your right that if it was a mistake or not the baby is gone. If you want to bring god into this then let me put it a different way. God is the one who is supposted to cast judgement on people, not other humans. God is the one who chooses when we go, so why should we have the choice to kill someone by putting them to death? Its not our place to "arrange a meeting".

I do believe that leaving them in the prison for 21 or more years would make him not want to make that mistake/action again. What our system does is put them in jail so they can see what they did and possibly change the way they are. So hopefully when they finally do come out they'll be better people and make better desicions. I see nothing wrong with that.

# It seems you misinterpret — Sephiroth86 2008-09-01 05:57

Allow me to rephrase.

I think any ADULT who raises their hand to a child (in the general meaning of the word) should be... (read previous comment).

Now, as for "are we not all God's children?": As far as I'm concerned, no. 'God', to me at least, is a fictional character, for want of a better term.

And finally. If you were beaten up at school for being ugly, that's your problem. I'm sure those kids would have been dealt with appropriately. There's not exactly the same age difference between school children, as there is between a fully grown man and a new born baby is there?

# I don't care! — Auraomega 2008-09-01 06:10

Honestly, I don't care if he meant to kill the baby or not, either way he did. What he did was pretty much like shooting someone in the heart just to inflict pain but not intent on killing, the outcome is obvious - the outcome is the same.

I'm 18, from the age 13 I've known how fragile babies were, firsthand, and I'm sure I knew beforehand that shaking a baby was lethal; this guy is 21, and his blind rage killed that baby.

Some people need to get their priorities sorted out, a game before a helpless 18 day old? Something is messed up there.

And, I'm not saying this is the case, but did it ever occur to you that afterwards he thought "Crap, I'm going to go down for murder, I'll take the kid to hospital make myself look good for court, may get less than a life sentance/death sentance". And when it came to court, ever thought that he realised that pleading guilty for something so obviously his fault would land him less time in jail?

# Uh...? — Auraomega 2008-09-01 06:17

I'm sorry, but I doubt even the most reserved people out there could post this kind of news without putting the guy in a bad light, theres no way of making this look "neutral" as you say. Honestly, thats like saying "This guy killed a 18 day old baby, but thats ok I'm not going to say what I think of him because, heck, this is the news and opinions aren't needed"... Yeah, like THATS ever going to happen! News is always has opinions in it, and in this case I'd ask for nothing less.

# ...somewhat agree — Auraomega 2008-09-01 06:22

I can somewhat agree with a babies cry being stressful, its the same as seeing a loved one unhappy, and being powerless against whatever is doing it. But, after all the times I've been stressed (working, games, etc) and having a baby crying around me, its never made me even come close to lashing out, I know people are different, but I still find it hard to imagine anyone under enough stress to shake a child and then hit it, however hard that hit may have been.

# Same argument, different point — Auraomega 2008-09-01 06:25

This same argument, about certain classes of people get different sentances, it stands with all things, time in jail, death, etc etc. Its not just death, so your argument is defunct, it either states no argument at all, or states that we should ditch the legal system altogether because certain people are more likely to get leniant sentances.

# What!? — rokard111 2008-09-01 06:42

This guy is a pathetic son of a B*£#%, killing his girfriends baby over a game? This guy should be getting death penalty!

# Your disgusting and cruel!!! — rokard111 2008-09-01 06:47

Yea, well i bet when you were a little baby you were in need of attention! So how about you go F*** a duck you lowlife B*****

P.S: you should NEVER discipline a little kid by hurting them!

# W.T.F...? — rokard111 2008-09-01 06:57

Dude, if thats what you are thinking, get off the the internet, don't post pathetic, and cruel comments like that, die of a painful slow death, and rot in hell, coz both YOU and the guy that killed the baby are just a pair of F***faces!

# Actually — WarLord 2008-09-01 07:00

The death penalty costs more than life sentencing in most cases (An average of $2 million per convict). Death penalty comes close, but you only pay a minimum amount each year instead of paying millions upfront.

# This same argument, about certain classes of people get different sentances, it stands with all things, time in jail, death, etc etc. — WarLord 2008-09-01 07:07

Thats true, but unlike time in prison, the death penalty is final. There is no coming back from that and there is no way to be reimbursed for it if a mistake or misjudgement were to ever have been discovered.

# Gnarly. — hellodentist 2008-09-01 09:09

As I was reading that my mind was reeling with how many different brutal ways he must've killed the baby. When I got to where "he shook and hit the baby" I was surprised. I guess it makes sense once you think about how fragile an 18 day old would be, but damn, he kind of didn't do anything that you'd think would kill a "baby." Obviously, we're not sure how hard he hit the baby, he could've punched it in the nose or just slapped its bottom. Either way, he got what he deserved.

On a different note, I wonder what game he was playing? What would send him into such a rage? Probably trying to get some gnarly achievement in some game. Or Nintendogs.

# Dragoon — Dragoon 2008-09-01 09:18

Yes your original post was deleted because it was silly. QJ isn't the wild west, there are rules here and we do moderate comments, feel free to express your opinion but being crass for the sake of it will get you moderated.

# *clap clap* — 93pauott 2008-09-01 09:43

i'm drinking tea and eating noodles rite nao.

# rofl — 93pauott 2008-09-01 09:45

"nintendogs, unleash the rage"

# The law — God (Unregistered) 2008-09-01 09:49

He got manslaughter because it wasn't premedidated. If he had the intention of killing the baby before shaking/hitting it then he would've gotten first degree murder.

But in all seriousness.. when the case is this extreme.. first degree murder should be used. I mean, the child is a few weeks old.. any harm inflicted on the baby that could and does lead to a fatality should be grounds to treat a case as first degree murder. Maybe they should start handing out pampflits to new parents that state this just so we can make this legit.

Manslaughter does not carry a life sentence or death penality.. but in all fairness.. this guy could be walking around in 21 years on the street while'st that baby should have been enjoying its 21st year of life on this planet... life is brutal.

# ... — a20z07 2008-09-01 09:53

well... hopefully no1 will go around shaking babies to death after reading this article... its a lesson for us all. an obvious lesson, but still...

# wow — sqrl175 2008-09-01 09:55

well if it were in the u.s. they should ship the guy to texas, and have him play ikaruga hooked up to an electric chair and if he gets past the fifth level then he gets 21 years, if not, ZAP. and then we would all shake him too and give him a good ol amurrican curbing but instead of a curb we'd use a big honkin ps3. with don king as the promoter. that is all.

# wat a ***** — a20z07 2008-09-01 09:56

ur a *****

# .. — Binary 2008-09-01 10:30

If I was a mod I would delete your posts and slap the ban hammer because baby cant help it. They cant walk or talk like stewie from family guy.

I hope to god you don't have any kids.

# HANG HIM — Binary 2008-09-01 10:32

or the electric chair!

# rite... — DontCryIfYouDie 2008-09-01 11:23

if this news was brought up in a room full of people (around 20-30)and you stated your opinion on this...well i bet you would fully regret it. after saying something like that i doubt that anyone would want to look of the disgrace of which is you...

# lawl — dazmo 2008-09-01 11:38

the point that is lost on you, vanaheimx, is that anyone who would read a report like this and NOT be off the same mindset as the author obviously is does NOT need to be reading newspapers. he DOES need his cage lined with them though.

P.S. you are misinformed about the goal of any news reporting agency in the United States is not to deliver unbiased accounts of news stories, it is to illicit funds from other comapnies who wish to advetise with them. fostering emotion from the readers is a good way to have them keep reading, and thus, expose themselves to more advertisements. in short, this is a prime example of a good news story.

though you might call it "manipulation", a better observation would be that articles like this make a handy filter for intelligent people to easily weed out the morons among them.

# Posting Dumbass Comments — Sanzee 2008-09-01 12:42

Of course we're going to be sensitive about this problem . People who say this isn't our problem are *****ing wack. They tell me "It's not your baby, don't worry about it".

Someones missing the *****ing point.

# What a Clown — Sanzee 2008-09-01 12:43

The kid was 18 days old. Maybe you should shut the ***** up. People won't stop harping on you or giving you ***** until you shut your lips and learn.

# *plays batman theme* — eaglebaize 2008-09-01 15:14

DANANANANANANAN A THOMPSON!!!

# ... — Vanaheimx 2008-09-01 15:21

It's actually very easy to write from a neutral stand point. "On Oct. 26th, 2007, Rene Edward Barrios was charged with looking after his girlfriends 18 day old infant who lay sleeping in the next room. Presently, the infant started to cry, sending Barrios into a rage, pausing the game, he went into the room, grabbed the child, shook him and then hit him before returning to his gaming session. By the time Barrios went back to check on the baby he was blue and unconscious, the child died at the hospital and Barrios was immediately arrested."

As you can see, the second half of the article was written from a neutral standpoint. I just thought the first half was unprofessional.

I'm sorry that offended you.

Barrios has plead guilty to manslaughter and will be sentenced to serve between 10.5 and 21 years in prison."

# lawlz — eaglebaize 2008-09-01 15:23

You used bad words. However on a more serious note, that seems like a slightly immature comment. Oh well... all I meant was that some of these people are sounding like animals. I know a baby died, which is a horrifyingly terrible thing, but some of the comments on here sounded a little bit on the sick side. Also, if the the convicted man really did mean to kill the baby because he lost control or something, wouldn't it be a more powerful punishment for him to mentally rip himself apart in prison rather than let some guy "do the job" for him? The mind is a powerful thing, but it can be quite a scary form of torture if you think about it.

# lost sheep.. — maggy666 2008-09-01 16:00

I have really got to say that the majority of you are just being hypocritical when it comes down to it. Casting your imputative judgment upon a situation, when you truly do not have full perspective of the motives behind the actions of the culprit. Is it not your deity who says "Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged" so who are you? Are you his savior? Will you bring him salvation or invoke fire and brimstone as a suitable form of damnation? If not then please dismiss your contempt for the lost and attribute this mishap to natural selection, and remember it's only occurring in your mind, you are bound to make yourself seem a fool, praising him with one hand and blaspheming with the other.

# Cost — Steven 2008-09-01 17:49

I know that lethal injection can be pretty costly but believe it or not some states still allow the old fashioned firing squad, and hanging, and electric chair. Then we have the more modern methods of lethal injection, and Gas Chamber. I personally don't think I could ever shoot a man unless he threatened my life, so I would never be on a firing squad. Though from my studies in Criminal Justice, there are 5 members to the firing squad, four have blanks while one has a real bullet. Its at random who gets the bullet, this will help the people who are firing a bit of relief. This is not my method of choice, I'm just passing on some of my knowledge. The most humane way would be lethal injection because its the least painful and most effective but is spendy.

# sorry... — eggwonder 2008-09-01 18:07

i didn't wanna rain on your parade but you said heaven. The bible says everyone is born into sin. the child therefore goes to hell even though it was too young to accept god into its life.

Like i said, i didn't want to rain on your parade but u brought the afterlife into this. Also i just remembered that the man has time to repent or be forgiven of his sins and still go to heaven in the 15-21 years in jail he has.

# i can agree with this guy a lil bit... — eggwonder 2008-09-01 18:13

if the baby didn't cry, then the fatal shaking wouldn't have killed it. Now im not glad the baby is gone but not crying around an idiot would have been a brilliant idea for the baby.

# it was manslaughter... — eggwonder 2008-09-01 18:28

he did not... i repeat did not try to kill the child on purpose. He wanted the baby to stop crying and was probably losing in the game along with other stresses and did not know what to do. He then probably in a panic and rage did the only thing he thought would shut it up. shake it. At no point in time did he say f this baby i am going to kill it. so it is not and should not be considered first degree murder. for it is not murder it is in fact manslaughter and got the title it deserves.

Btw... WTF does this have to do with my ps3 or psp? why am i reading about an idiot who just so happened to accidentally kill a baby by shaking it. The hit is negligible because the shaking probably killed the baby. This has nothing to do with games besides the fact that the man just so happened to be playing a game. I shouldn't come to a game news site/blog seeing horrific mistakes/crimes. I should see future game titles,homebrew ,new developers,spec ulation of new games,cheats for games, and game statistics. Whoever wrote this article is also a scumbag for writing an article that is biased and then saying the man who could have just been dumb is a scumbag for most likely making a mistake in judgment and killed the baby by shaking it.

# are — itzzspencer 2008-09-01 18:31

you freaking retarded? im going to throw you off a cliff and unintentionally kill you, therefore its okay

# lol — teh not so 1337 g@m3r 2008-09-01 19:11

I love how they say "over a video game".

The fact of the matter is he wanted the baby quiet. He could have been reading a book, or watching TV, and it would have been the same outcome.

# What game was he playing — gr8tlegend 2008-09-01 19:47

WHAT GAME WAS HE PLAYING ?! HEXIC HD !?

# woot — teh not so 1337 g@m3r 2008-09-01 22:26

LOL @ OP

# really now... — Meseria 2008-09-02 02:17

Why do you think the man is such a bad person? He made a big mistake but one person already died we shouldn't kill another with years in prison. I would bet my home that the man will not do it again because he didn't have intent to do it in the first place. Thats why he received 21 years because the prosecution couldn't prove intent to kill. It was just a random spike of rage. Do you deserve to rot in jail forever if you push a guy who calls your mom retarded and he just so happens to trip over a root, hits his head on a bar and dies? Thats involuntary manslaughter and you'll be going to prison for a while. The guy isnt a bad person, he just picked the wrong choice when confronted with stress and a baby.

# He waited too long! — garypunch 2008-09-02 02:56

If he had convinced the babies mother to have it killed (medically) 18 days earlier, he would have gotten no time in prison at all.

I really hope after the next election we can get some laws that will extend "freedom of choice" out a few months after a child's birth and make it available to BOTH genders. Its not fair that this guy should have been punished with the inconvenience of a child (esp. if it is as noisy as this one apparently was)

Both men and women should have the right to have a child medically put down if they determine that it is burden on their lives My personal view is that this should be restricted to the first three months of the child's life (but I don't want to force my morality on anyone).

# Just so you know... — Chris C 2008-09-02 03:20

your comments were edited and deleted by me.

# .. — Binary 2008-09-02 06:32

Thanks Chris!

# Who cares? — Binary 2008-09-02 06:34

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO USE CAPS LOCK?

WHY THE ***** DO YOU CARE OF WHAT GAME HES PLAYING?

# oh my oh my.... — Tekkenlord 2008-09-02 07:07

i have read all kind of stupid comments in here, obviously most of them from 14 year old kids or true a**holes, any grown up man that doesnt know that by hitting or "shaking" a baby u can cause him death is to be called a RETARD, cause only a retard wouldn't know this, im a father i have a 5 year old kid and a baby on the way, and when a baby CRIES, he cries beacuse he NEEDS something, he didnt cried cuz he wanted to play, or cuz he wanted to watch playboy channel in the same tv the "motherf***er bast@rd that did this was playing, he did it becuase HE OR SHE NEEDED (did i say NEED) SOMETHING, even if he DID NOT hitt him or "shake" him, IGNORING a baby criying is an INTENT OR MURDER ALONE, speacially if YOU are the person in CHARGE of the BABY, so if this left alone FACT is BAD ENOUGH to be called a SON of a two cents BI*CH now i dont understand HOW in god's name some jerks are saying that this MONSTER had a "mistake in judgement", i mean this kind of comment would only come from a RETARDED or some STU*P*ID KID that doesnt HAVE ANY CLUE of what a BABY IS, THIS WAS MURDER beacuse he was in "charge" of taking care of the baby, and if you are in charge of a life and u IGNORE what this life NEEDS is also murder, so he didnt enter the room of the baby with the "intent" of taking care of this NEEDS but with the need to "SHUT HIM UP" if thats not MURDER and any court or judge in the WORLD can'tor fail to see that, then i feel pitty for mankind.

# @Itzzspencer — Nevers 2008-09-02 07:21

totally... nice point.

>to Topic<

I mean come on... you're 21 and you don't know that shaking a baby is lethal, let alone "hitting" the baby. Get this dumb a$$'s gene-poole off the streets, please....

How many years will this cost the guy? At most 21?

Now, how many years did this cost the child? Potentially 80-100, huh?

The guy will still have half his life when he's released and he's lucky to get that.

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2008-09-02 08:31

He's not getting life because it was not intentional. In otherwords it wasn't murder in the first degree. Just manslaughter.

Accidents do happen but in this case, there is no such thing as being tried as a douche bag moron that doesn't know any better.

In the end, it's the girl that needs 100 lashes for trusting someone with anger issues to watch her child.

# :/ — 666_Dark SeRaNADE_666 2008-09-02 10:57

Stupid Fu(k

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# No justice till he's dead — Apoklepz 2008-09-03 01:52

Wow, having read all this and even the comments I just can't believe some of you even justify what this filth did. Manslaughter or not, he killed the purest form of innocence there could be on this planet. In all honesty he deserves extreme torture 24/7 for the rest of his life untill he dies of old, cold, organ-less death. I say every day try something new on him.

# Dragoon said he is ugly — gr8tlegend 2008-09-03 20:00

just saying .

# .... — mysterysword 2008-09-04 07:38

Well, he pleaded guilty, so he didn't get more time than that, and not to mention it wasn't premeditated.

# @ sqrl175 — jacobian91 2008-09-04 07:51

dude...

nice lol

Yes, that would be a wanker. It was probably the US. I think most raging psychopaths live here.

# lol. — Vanaheimx 2008-09-05 10:26

Tell that to the baby's mother.

That is insensitive, but it's funny in a way.

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# Too bad he gotta go to the jail... — pk90010 2008-09-19 11:10

Too bad he gone to the jail... If I had choice, I would have given that piece of ***** my way and give him 21 years of life he would never forget!

# What the. — delles 2008-09-25 01:24

No one. NO ONE at all, can say the death penalty is right. We made up the rules, we say what is ok and what is not ok, but we CAN'T say what is punishable by death.

Im sure maybe a few centuries ago, stealing a pair of shoes could have been punishable by death. I think we agree now that's a stupid reason, so please, we should be able to move on from this.

Furthermore, it's obvious that many people who are gaming addicts are violent, and it's unfortunate the baby died due to this. However I think before we start killing off people who do this because of computer addiction, we should be aiming to eliminate computer addiction instead.

Gosh, I'm sorry but I think people who are old fashioned and think death penalties are acceptable are idiots and do the human race a gross dishonour. Killing isn't an answer. Killing because you don't want to pay tax, or waste space is unacceptable.

# lol yourself — delles 2008-09-25 01:26

Over a video game;

Because video games can tend to make people violent. Watching Tv or reading a book would've just been possibly irratated, but its a fact that computers make people violent.

# you're wrong — delles 2008-09-25 01:32

he shouldn't die, just because we think thats his deserved punishment. its people like you who inspire sickly biased minds and communities.

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