A man who used his Alexa device to "babysit" his child has now lost custody of her.
The 30-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the girl alone at home to sleep and watched her using the app on his phone, while he went to the pub. The Mirror reported that a magistrates court in Llandrindod Wells, Wales heard this week that he "willingly left his daughter at home" at 8pm on 13 August last year while he was supposed to be looking after her.
He was discovered to have been using a virtual assistant after being arrested by police for strangling his partner at the end of their drinking session. A neighbour had been alerted by screaming in the garden at around 2am. PC Phillip Coombs arrived at 2.10am to find the pair engaged in a row before they "had to be separated".
