Two-year-old girl left at side of the road by dad who wanted revenge on ex

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A man who left his two-year-old daughter at the side of a road has pleaded guilty to child cruelty. The man, who wanted revenge on his ex-girlfriend, then sent pictures of the crying baby to her mother before leaving.The horrifying incident saw the child left crying by the road.

She was discovered by concerned passersby at five o'clock in the morning. Two men returning from a night out in Letterkenny in August 2020 found the distressed child sitting with no shoes on and holding a baby bottle with milk outside a construction site, reports the Irish Mirror.

Police Sergeant Frank McDaid of Letterkenny Garda Station told the District Court of the man, whose identity has been protected, but is said to be in his 20s, left the child there.The men who found her had thought the child may have escaped from a local house but those who answered their doors didn't recognise the little girl before police were called.

The child was taken in to a patrol car before the distressed mother called to identify the girl.She told police the child was left in the care of her father as the court learned he had become jealous that his ex-partner was out socialising and had called her on 'at least 30 occasions' during which he threatened that he would abandon the child.At around 4.30am the man threatened his ex-partner to tell him where she was or he would leave the child.