A 30-year-old dad decided to leave the virtual assistant Alexa to babysit his five-year-old daughter while he went to a bar party with his girlfriend, but things got out of control and the police had to intervene.
The negligent father thought he could keep an eye on the little girl from wherever he was in the city, but when he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, it was revealed that he had left his daughter alone.
According to information from Daily Mail, The events occurred in the town of Builth Wells, in Wales, United Kingdom, where the unconscious father left his five-year-old daughter asleep at home to go out on a spree with his partner. Before leaving, he placed the device next to the girl’s bed to be, according to him, on the lookout.
The Court heard the testimony of the man who admitted that he had voluntarily left his daughter at home at 8 pm because he could see her through the Amazon Alexa camera while he was sitting at the bar.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, Rebecca Ross, revealed that the girl’s parents had joint custody and detailed what happened the night the defendant was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.
They had both been drinking vodka and gin with lemonade at home until around 8 pm The defendant’s daughter was at home, but in bed. He wasn’t going to get out of her, but she liked him when she said she was going out without him, so she got out too.
Around two in the morning, Phillip Coombs, the defendant’s neighbor, heard some screaming in the garden, so he decided to go and verify what it was. In the place he discovered the couple arguing, both were already very drunk. In addition, he witnessed how the man grabbed his partner by the neck. After the scandal, the police arrived and it was then that it was discovered that the girl had been alone for part of the night.
The defendant admitted to intentional strangulation and child neglect at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates Court, Powys, for which he was given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years. In addition, he lost custody of his little daughter. Gareth Walters, acquaintance of the defendant, was surprised by what happened and even defended the father of the minor.
He is a good-natured young man, who has pleaded guilty to felonies. He will feel the consequences of this for a long time. His daughter has been taken from him and he was largely the one who took care of her. He sensed that he was watching his daughter, but he has realized that you can’t do that remotely.