Likwood, New Jersey – Moshe Erlich told the police that he has long been afraid of forgetting and leaving one of his six children in the car specifically before, which led to this The death of his 4 -month -old son on a small busAccording to the court registry.
Erlet, 35, told the investigators that he gained several ways to remind him that the child was in the car. One of these methods included placing his hat on the front passenger seat while driving as a reminder. On March 18, no difference occurred, according to the written statement.
Details were clarified about the circumstances surrounding the last hours of the child in a written statement from the potential causes that arrested Eriegel on charges of endangering children after two days on March 20. A student in a local religious school, he described Erlich in the morning and quickly before he went to Yashiva to start his studies.
The child, whose name was revised in the shipping documents requested by the Asbury Park Press newspaper, is part of the USA Today network, under the state’s open public record law, in the car for nearly two hours while Erlet is at the Jewish School.
It was the child The first child to die in a hot car In 2025, according to the data collected by children’s safety and car safety, which tracks such deaths and preachers for preventive measures. Dozens of children are tragicly perishable every year in cars that are heated quickly when left under the hot sun, even if the temperatures are not hot. Many children are invited by the parents unaware, according to the organization.
The testimony said that the temperature inside the Erlet family car was recorded at 96.2 degrees at 3:45 pm on that day, although the air temperature in Likwood, New Jersey was 67.8 degrees.
“Where is your child?” What happened on that day
FAIGA EHRLICH, the victim’s Ehrich’s wife, told the police that her husband-who was usually responsible for getting rid of three of their children every morning at school or in an incubator-was assigned that day with a fourth child driver after the school bus missed him.
Faiga Ehrich left to work at 9:30 am while her husband was wearing clothes and ready for daytime care. Moshe Ehrich has downloaded them in the family toyota sienna for the family. The child is usually dropped in the incubator home first, but when Erleikh reached that destination, he discovered that he forgot the milk of the infant. Before returning home to recover milk, he decided to get out of children between the ages of 4 and 2 in daytime care and 6 -year -old at school.
Then he returned home, ran inside, brought milk and some other things he needs, and returned to the car. But instead of returning to the incubator’s house, he traveled to his next destination, the religious school, forgetting that the child will completely descend, according to the criminal complaint. He was arrested and went to Yashiva at about 11 am
At 1:30 pm, he was said to call for the family emergency line. On his way to take a call, who was from his wife who was calling after hearing from the children’s cliff, Zivi Kitai, the 19 -year -old child, stopped him, who came looking for Moshe Erleikh at school.
“Where is your child?” Kitai asked him.
Police officers are watching while a small bus is loaded on a flat cloud truck on the fifth street between Montmouth and Bruneston in Likwood on Tuesday afternoon, March 18, 2025.
Moshe Erlich told the police that he collected his property and ran to the car, removed his child and called Hatzola in Central Jersey, an ambulance service in Likwood. The child was transferred to a medical center and announced his death at 2:40 pm
At the time, a major criminal investigation was launched in the death of the boy. The virtual autopsy, an expanded dissection performed using scanning operations, was performed at about 6:30 of that night, and at this point it was determined that the entire autopsy after death was necessary to investigate. There is no shock to the child’s body and the cause of death cannot be determined until “cultures” can be tested, all according to the linear benefit. The results are suspended.
Moshe Erlich was accused of exposing the child’s welfare.
How to leave children in hot cars
The news that the child in a hot car usually sends shock waves across the local community and can publish headlines of national newspapers. The spectators ask how the father can forget their child.
This type of death often occurs when one of the parents or care providers has a change in the routine, or parents make mistakes with each other about who is responsible for taking the child inward, and it has not been discovered until it was too late, I told the founder of children’s safety and safety of cars former Janet Vinyl. Vinyl said it is important to be aware of the danger, because any parents can make a deadly mistake at any time.
Vinyl said that the same brain mechanism that makes someone leaves a cup of coffee on top of his car and heads away makes someone leave a child. In many cases, the change in the routine-such as the father who usually does not usually download the daytime-the brain that works on the automatic pilot leads to the tragedy.
At other times, children enter into cars themselves while parents believe that they are in a state of trips or playing safely, and they become trapped. Armani Shoemaker, 3 years old, died on May 3, 2024, after she left her family’s home and in an insured car in Colombia, South Carolina, The authorities said.
In 2024, there were 40 deaths in hot cars in the United States from May to November. The most common months of deaths are June, July and August when temperatures fall into many nation. The tragedy has hit families of more than 1,100 children since 1990, according to children’s safety and car safety. At least 7,500 other children survived injuries.
“In most situations, this happens to loved parents, care and protection,” says the group. “This has happened to a teacher, a dentist, a social worker, a police officer, nurse, a cleric, a soldier, and even a missile scientist. It can happen to anyone.”
However, local authorities have a discretionary authority whether they will be charged against parents who leave their children in cars. The main question is whether they had done it, although parents who say they have accidentally left their child are still accused. More than half of the deaths of hot cars did not lead to a condemnation between 1990 and 2020, according to Analysis by children and car safety. About 41 % of the parents who left their child in a non -charged car.
Tips to avoid a tragic accident
Experts say that experts do not leave a child in a car alone, even if you think you will only go for a few minutes. To prevent the child from entering a car on his own, always keep the cars closed when you are not in use, be sure to keep the keys far away. Ask the neighbors to lock their cars.
Here is what the experts say that you must do it to prevent a tragic accident:
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A visual reminder that your child is with you, like a diaper bag, in the front seat.
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Put an important component that you need to start your day in the back seat, like your cell phone, and usually make it the back door when it comes out of the car.
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Ask child care providers to contact you if your child is not dropped as specified, because parents sometimes believe that they have brought down their child and go to work, and he left them in a way in their car seats throughout the day.
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Vinyl also said that the advice you like to give is to keep an animal stuffed in your child’s car seat at all times. When your child is placed in the seat, the stuffed animal goes to the front passenger seat as a visual reminder.
How can technology help: Technology can be alerted in cars when the child leaves
Call Asbury Park Press Reporter Erik Larsen on Elasen@gannettnj.com.
This article originally appeared on Usa Today: The first hot car death for 2025: tragedy strikes in New Jersey
