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Kyle Seitz, 36, turned himself in to police on Tuesday
afternoon and was charged with criminally negligent homicide
over his son Benjamin's death, NBC Connecticut said.
The network reported that Seitz was released on a promise to
appear and was due to arrive in court on Wednesday.
Ridgefield police confirmed that Seitz turned himself in, but
gave no further details.
Benjamin Seitz died of "hyperthermia due to environmental
exposure" on July 7 after being left alone for hours in a hot
car by his father, the chief state medical examiner's office
said in August. The office ruled the death was a homicide.
The temperature in the car reached nearly 88 degrees that day,
according to a report issued by Danbury Hospital in Danbury, a
city near Ridgefield.
Seitz was supposed to take his son to day care that morning,
police said, but instead he drove to his job at a technology
company and accidentally left the boy in the car until realizing
he had forgotten about him.
An attorney for Seitz could not be reached for comment on
Tuesday.
The issue gained national attention this summer with reports of
children around the country being left in hot cars alone for
long periods of time.
In September, a Georgia father was charged with murder after
being accused of intentionally leaving his 22-month-old son
strapped inside a hot car and exchanging nude photos with women
as the child was dying.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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