Connecticut father turns himself in four months after son’s hot car death

A Connecticut father of a 15-month-old boy who died after being left in a car in July turned himself in on Tuesday after being charged with negligent homicide.

Kyle Seitz, 36, was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of his son, Benjamin Jacob Seitz, more than four months after he left the toddler in the back seat of his car, according to Fox CT.

Seitz turned himself in at 4 p.m. Tuesday after learning that police had obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Seitz's 15-month-old son Benjamin died of hyperthermia after Seitz allegedly left him in the car while going to work at Owl Computing Technologies in Ridgefield on July 7.

Police say Seitz was supposed to drop the boy off at daycare, but went to work with Benjamin in the car. Seitz discovered he forgot Benjamin after work, and rushed him to the hospital.

Several weeks after the 15-month-old's death, Benjamin's mother, Lindsey Rogers-Seitz, said she forgave her husband of 12 years. Seitz is a good father to their daughters, 6 and 8, she said.

"I love my husband," Rogers-Seitz, a lawyer, said. "Of course I forgive him. But it doesn't mean that our lives aren't different now. So we have to move forward with a new, different reality for us, and it's always going to be that way."

There were four cases of children left in a hot car in Connecticut this summer, according to the Hartford Courant. Benjamin was the only one who died.

According to the report, Seitz was released on a promise to appear and is scheduled to appear in Danbury Superior Court on Wednesday morning.

Benjamin's death prompted Rogers-Seitz to start a blog, The Gift of Ben, to raise awareness about children's heatstroke deaths.