Leave your daughter alone at home to go out with a woman and monitor the little one with the Alexa virtual assistant app.

In trouble a 27-year-old from Wales who, after putting the 5-year-old girl to bed, joined his new flame in a local pub. "I did it because I could check it from my mobile anyway," said the man at Magistrates Court in Llandrindod Wells.

However, a second charge is pending on the father, convicted of abandonment of a minor . According to the reconstructions of the Police, at the end of the evening in the company of the woman , he would have tried to strangle her . When cornered, he admitted both that he had tried to kill her and that he had left the little girl alone, without the care of a parent.

(Unioneonline/vf)