7 Month old left in car by father pronounced dead
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Ok how the hell does one forget their own kid in a car?
LAKEWOOD -- A 25-year-old father has been charged with child endangerment after his 7-month-old son was found dead in the back seat of his car yesterday. The man apparently forgot the infant was secured in a car seat, and the boy was been left in the car for at least four hours, police said.
Aryeh L. Katzman of Harrison Drive was taken to police headquarters and had posted $100,000 bail by 7 p.m. yesterday, Detective Capt. Robert Lawson said. He is charged with second-degree child endangerment, Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Robert A. Gasser said.
The charge carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.
Lawson said Katzman had placed his son, Chaim, in the car at their home early yesterday and apparently forgot about him and drove to his rabbinical school, Beth Medrash Govoha. The father apparently attended classes and realized the baby was in the car only when he arrived at the baby sitter's to pick the boy up several hours later, Lawson said.
Lawson said police were called to the baby sitter's home on Powderhorn Drive about 2:15 p.m. and found the boy in the back seat of a Toyota Camry with its windows closed. The infant was pronounced dead by a doctor who works with the Hatzolah First Aid Squad, Lawson said.
The body had several heat blisters, Lawson said. The temperature in Lakewood was in the mid- to high 60s, said Jim Poirier, National Weather Service meteorologist.
Police spent about two hours examining the car and interviewing neighbors.
There was no answer at the Katzmans' modest ranch home, where the family had a fenced-in backyard pool and unmowed grass two feet high.
Neighbors said the baby was the couple's only child and that Aryeh Katzman and his wife, Malky, had kept to themselves since moving in about a year ago.
"I just feel grief for the family," said Terrence Joyner, 34, who lives across the street from the Katzmans. "It must be hard to lose a child. Then again, too, how do you leave a 7-month-old unattended? It's just an unfortunate thing that happened. I don't know how they left the child."
News of the infant's death also shocked and saddened community members who didn't know the Katzmans.
"It's the rarest thing you'll ever find," said Yakov Williams, 29, of Lakewood. "People care about their children in this community more than in any community you'll ever find."
Ok how the hell does one forget their own kid in a car?
LAKEWOOD -- A 25-year-old father has been charged with child endangerment after his 7-month-old son was found dead in the back seat of his car yesterday. The man apparently forgot the infant was secured in a car seat, and the boy was been left in the car for at least four hours, police said.
Aryeh L. Katzman of Harrison Drive was taken to police headquarters and had posted $100,000 bail by 7 p.m. yesterday, Detective Capt. Robert Lawson said. He is charged with second-degree child endangerment, Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Robert A. Gasser said.
The charge carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.
Lawson said Katzman had placed his son, Chaim, in the car at their home early yesterday and apparently forgot about him and drove to his rabbinical school, Beth Medrash Govoha. The father apparently attended classes and realized the baby was in the car only when he arrived at the baby sitter's to pick the boy up several hours later, Lawson said.
Lawson said police were called to the baby sitter's home on Powderhorn Drive about 2:15 p.m. and found the boy in the back seat of a Toyota Camry with its windows closed. The infant was pronounced dead by a doctor who works with the Hatzolah First Aid Squad, Lawson said.
The body had several heat blisters, Lawson said. The temperature in Lakewood was in the mid- to high 60s, said Jim Poirier, National Weather Service meteorologist.
Police spent about two hours examining the car and interviewing neighbors.
There was no answer at the Katzmans' modest ranch home, where the family had a fenced-in backyard pool and unmowed grass two feet high.
Neighbors said the baby was the couple's only child and that Aryeh Katzman and his wife, Malky, had kept to themselves since moving in about a year ago.
"I just feel grief for the family," said Terrence Joyner, 34, who lives across the street from the Katzmans. "It must be hard to lose a child. Then again, too, how do you leave a 7-month-old unattended? It's just an unfortunate thing that happened. I don't know how they left the child."
News of the infant's death also shocked and saddened community members who didn't know the Katzmans.
"It's the rarest thing you'll ever find," said Yakov Williams, 29, of Lakewood. "People care about their children in this community more than in any community you'll ever find."
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