A dad in New Jersey was charged with murder after his 8-week-old daughter died after being left in the car on Monday when it was in the mid-90s.
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said Tuesday that Avraham Chaitovsky, 28, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child because he left his daughter in the car for “an extended period,” which caused her death.
Around 1:45 p.m., police were called to a freaky scene near New Egypt Road in Lakewood Township because a child was having a cardiac attack.
Hatzolah Medical Services, a volunteer medical service that helps the Jewish community, was trying to save Chaitovsky’s daughter’s life when police arrived.
Billhimer said, however, that the baby was declared dead at the scene.
The baby was left alone in Chaitovsky’s car for a long time, according to an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, the Lakewood Township Police Department, and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit.
Investigators say that the baby’s death was caused and caused by being left in the car for so long without being watched.
You can now find Chaitovsky free after being arrested and taken to the Ocean County Jail.
No one knows for sure how long the baby was left in the car or why she was left there.
The investigation is still going on, and Chaitovsky may be charged with more things.
It is very hot in New Jersey and many other parts of the U.S. at the same time as the terrible event.
Since Sunday, Lakewood has been under a warning for too much heat.
This week, about half of all Americans, or 160 million people, were on heat watch. Lakewood was one of those communities.
A lot of American kids die every year because they are left in hot cars. Most of the time, their parents forgot they left them there in the first place. Another reason is that parents or guardians don’t talk to each other enough or forget to drop the child off at daycare, Janette Fennell, head of Kids and Car Safety, told Fox News Digital last month.
From 1990 to 2023, the group has kept track of at least 1,083 deaths in hot cars. Last year, 29 people died and in 2022, 36 people died. Most of them happen in the summer.
