Mum FEEDS her video-game addicted son who plays for 48 hours
This is the disturbing moment a mother is forced to feed her 13-year-old son during his marathon 48-hour gaming session at an internet cafe when he refused to leave the screen to eat.
Lilybeth Marvel, 37, says she became worried two years ago when her son Carlito Garcia began staying late at an internet cafe in Nueva Ecija in the Philippines.
Footage shows her coaxing Carlito into eating breakfast she is delivering to him during one of his gaming binges this week.
The boy becomes agitated and cannot even bring his eyes from the screen or hands off the keyboard as his mother feeds him.
Ms Marvel can be heard saying to Carlito: ‘My poor child... Here, eat now.
‘You have so much money, it might take till tomorrow for you to get home. Are you still needing to pee? My goodness, just feel sorry for my child. You are so irritating.’
She seems deeply concerned for Carlito as she says she is worried he may not eat until the following day.
She also asks the child if he wants to take vitamins that his grandmother has sent because she is worried he is becoming malnourished.
The teenager has skipped school and sits alone ‘like a zombie’ playing his favourite battle royale game on the computer, ‘Rules of Survival’.
Massage therapist Ms Marvel and her husband, a security guard also named Carlito, removed the boy from school while they try to deal with his addiction.
The concerned mother has now pleaded online for help.
Explaining why she brought breakfast from her home all the way to the computer shop, Ms Marvel said: ‘I used to just nag about his online games. But that didn’t work. So I’m trying a different approach.
‘I try to make him feel that whatever is happening in his life, I am his mother who loves him and takes care of him.’
She said that trying to ban him had not worked - and he would find ways to sneak away to the internet cafe.
Culled from dailymail.co.uk