Fortnite pro player Jarvis Kaye has been banned from the game after using an aimbot – a hack that lets players accurately auto-focus their weapons on enemies.
In a 6-minute video, Kaye, 17, apologized for his actions before saying that he never used the aimbot in a competitive play and only using it for playground mode and casual solos mode for creating video content for his YouTube and Twitch followers.
His mother, Barbara Khattri, defended her ‘broken’ son and said that he had ‘made an error.’ She also said that the gaming community should ‘re-think how it treats people.’
Mrs. Khattri said to Mail Online: “Jarvis made an error and he admits that. But the gaming community needs to re-think how it treats people.
“He’s broken. He loves that game. He doesn’t have a devious bone in his body and what I really know is that for any mistake that doesn’t physically harm a person there should be the chance to make amends.”
In a Facebook post that has been deleted, the mother also wrote: “It’s my turn at the moment to be feeling that abject pain, despair and helplessness today. My youngest son Jarvis made a genuine, naive error of judgement and is currently banned for life from something he loves.”
She added: “It’s been a very long, tough week and I’ve woken this morning with it trending on Twitter where there is both overwhelming support and criticism for him.
“As not only a parent and a boss but mostly as just a person, I know first hand how so often the lesson is so much better learned when there is the opportunity to take full responsibility, and actually in whatever way fix or right the wrong!
“I pray for Jarvis that this is the case for him. I’m not looking for agreement with my point of view at all, I just thought that there’s as much power in sharing when we feel scared and confused as when we’re on top of the world.”
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