A New Jersey father was arrested after allegedly leaving his 4-month-old son in a household van for 2 hours, ensuing within the first pediatric vehicular heatstroke dying of 2025.

On March 18, Moshe Ehrlich was liable for dropping 4 of his six kids off at a babysitter’s residence, in response to The New York Publish. Upon arriving, he realized he had forgotten the toddler’s milk and returned to his Lakewood residence to retrieve it, leaving three kids with the sitter and the toddler within the van.

After selecting up the milk, Ehrlich allegedly drove to the Princeton Avenue yeshiva, forgetting the kid was nonetheless within the automobile, in response to an arrest affidavit cited by the Publish. The babysitter grew to become involved when Ehrlich didn’t return with the infant and texted the kid’s mom. The affidavit states the message went unseen for greater than an hour.

Each the mom and babysitter made repeated, unanswered calls to Ehrlich to inquire concerning the toddler’s whereabouts. The babysitter’s teenage son later discovered the van parked outdoors the yeshiva with the infant inside.

First responders arrived to search out the toddler unresponsive. He was pronounced useless at Monmouth Medical Middle Southern Campus in Lakewood.

Though the out of doors temperature reached solely 63 levels that day, the van’s inside temperature was estimated at 96 levels as a result of direct daylight.

In line with NoHeatStroke.org, this marks the primary scorching automobile dying involving a toddler in 2025. Final 12 months, there have been 39 pediatric vehicular heatstroke deaths—two greater than the annual common recorded from 1998 to 2024.

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