N.J. Dad Charged In Death Of 4MO Son Left In Minivan

[Sugar Cookie]

The father of a 4-month old baby who died after being left in a minivan in Lakewood on Tuesday has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Moshe Ehrlich, 35, of Lakewood surrendered Thursday morning at police headquarters and was brought to the Ocean County jail ahead of a first appearance in court, the prosecutor’s office said.

Ehrlich left his son in the vehicle alone for “an extended period of time, prosecutors said.

When police arrived at 1:45 p.m., they found a private ambulance service already administering aid to the distressed baby, authorities said.

The baby was treated at the scene before being brought to an area hospital where he later died.

The temperature was in the mid 50s shortly before 2 p.m. in Lakewood, but the interior of vehicles can quickly get much hotter.

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[BuffettGirl]

Poor little bubs...

 

[cubby]

charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Why not some homicide charge? Like, at least, manslaughter? He did, in fact, kill him by leaving him in a car.

 

[Kitsune Faye]

Why not some homicide charge? Like, at least, manslaughter? He did, in fact, kill him by leaving him in a car.

I agree. Or second degree murder, since the baby died due to another felony, child neglect/abuse. And Ik the anti semitic comments are heavy on news websites like MSN and the like, which is as disgusting as this asshole and the crime he committed.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Moshe Ehrlich told police he had long feared forgetting and leaving one of his six children in the car before precisely that happened last month, resulting in the death of his four-month-old son in the family minivan, according to a court record.

Ehrlich, 35, a student at a local religious school, described a disrupted and hurried morning on March 18, before he went to his yeshiva to begin his studies for the day.

Details about the circumstances surrounding the baby’s last hours were outlined in an affidavit of probable cause that led to Ehrlich’s arrest on a charge of child endangerment two days later on March 20.

The child had been left in the car for about 2½-hours while Ehrlich was in the school on Princeton Avenue, according to those same documents.

The temperature inside the car was recorded at 96.2 degrees at 3:45 p.m. that date, even though the air temperature outside in Lakewood was 67.8 degrees, the affidavit stated.

Ehrlich told investigators that leaving his child in the vehicle had always been a concern. He said he had acquired several methods to remind him that the baby was in the car. One such method included placing his hat on the front passenger seat while he was driving. On this occasion, doing so made no difference, he said, according to the affidavit.

Faiga Ehrlich, Ehrlich’s wife and the mother of the victim, told police that her husband — who was normally responsible for dropping off three of their children each morning at school or at a sitter’s — had been tasked on that day with chauffeuring four of the children after their six-year-old missed the school bus, the affidavit states.

Mrs. Ehrlich left for work at 9:30 a.m. while her husband was getting two of their children — ages 4 and 2 — dressed and ready for daycare. He then got them, the six-year-old and the baby into the family’s Toyota Sienna.

The baby is normally dropped off at the sitter’s house first, but when Ehrlich reached that destination, he discovered he had forgotten the infant’s milk. Before returning home to retrieve the milk, he decided to drop off the 4-and-2-year-olds at daycare and the 6-year-old at school.

He then returned home, ran inside, fetched the milk and some other things he needed, and returned to the car. But instead of driving back to the sitter’s house, he drove to a religious school he attends on Princeton Avenue, forgetting to drop off the baby, according to the criminal complaint.

He parked on 5th Street about 11 a.m. and went into the yeshiva. Around 1:30 p.m., someone from the school notified him that he had a phone call on a dedicated office line for family emergencies.

Earlier at 12:18 p.m., Esther Kitay, the babysitter, had texted Faiga Ehrlich to find out what had happened since Moshe Ehrlich had never showed up with the baby that morning.

However, Faiga Ehrlich didn’t see the text message until 1:30. When she did, she immediately called her husband on his phone but he didn’t answer and so she next tried the school’s emergency line.

Back at the school, Moshe Ehrlich was on his way to take the emergency call when he was intercepted by Kitay’s 19-year-old son, Zevi, who had come looking for him inside the school.

“Where is your baby?” he asked Ehrlich.

Ehrlich would tell police that he gathered his belongings and ran out to his car. When he got to the vehicle, he removed his baby and called Hatzolah of Central Jersey, the first aid and ambulance service in Lakewood.

As the baby was taken to Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus on Route 9, Ehrlich spoke to his wife and they both agreed to pray. The baby would be pronounced dead at 2:40 p.m. that Tuesday.

Their attorney, Yosef B. Jacobovitch would ask Mitchell if a “virtual autopsy” could be performed “in a more expedited fashion” on the infant, rather than a full, post-mortem autopsy, if the parents agreed to stipulate that the child’s death was caused by having been left in the minivan. A virtual autopsy is a non-invasive procedure that allows for remains to be studied via a CAT scan or MRI that results in a three-dimensional imaging of the body’s internal structure.

A virtual autopsy was conducted about 6:30 that night, at which point a determination was made that a full post-mortem autopsy was necessary for the investigation. The latter procedure was completed at Community Medical Center in Toms River at 10 a.m. the following day.

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[cubby]

You put your HAT on the seat to remind you of the baby???!!!

Ever thought about leaving the diaper bag up front, or, I don't know, your HAT in the back with the baby? You just picked up milk for the baby and, I think, that it's reasonable to think you put that on the front seat, but that didn't remind you of a fragile, vulnerable, defenseless human in the back seat??

 

[Sugar Cookie]

You put your HAT on the seat to remind you of the baby???!!!

Ever thought about leaving the diaper bag up front, or, I don't know, your HAT in the back with the baby? You just picked up milk for the baby and, I think, that it's reasonable to think you put that on the front seat, but that didn't remind you of a fragile, vulnerable, defenseless human in the back seat??

He was so focused on getting to his classes that he forgot the baby hopefully at some point he will acknowledge and accept that as the truth.