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Posted on 27/06/05

South Carolina eliminated VLTs after baby died as mom gambled

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- If anything sealed the fate of video poker in South Carolina, it was the sad tale of Joy Baker, a 10-day-old baby who suffocated in a car while her mother played the machines at a roadside casino in August of 1997.

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