CINCINNATI - A 24 year old woman was released on bond yesterday after pleading not guilty to charges of child neglect that investigators said might have grown out of an addiction to the Internet.
Ms Sandra Hacker was jailed on three counts of child "endangering after her estranged husband reported that she was spending up to 12 hours a day at her computer.
Police said they found broken glass, other debris and human faeces 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 a psychologist from Hartford, Connecticut, as saying the case had all the earmarks of "Internet Addiction Disorder".