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When Chaya Shurkin, 27, is sentenced on July 23, the State will recommend the Judge sentence her to a term of probation.
On May 6 of 2019, Lakewood Police responded to a home in town for a report of a child in distress.
First responders performed life saving measures on the toddler who was then brought to Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood where the child later died.
The investigation run by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit along with Lakewood Police and Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, learned that Shurkin left the child alone in her car for about two-and-a-half hours with the car turned off..in the heat.
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TOMS RIVER - A Lakewood woman whose baby daughter died after being left unattended in a hot car for hours pleaded guilty on Friday to endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor s Office.
Chaya Shurkin, 27, was charged in connection with the May 6, 2019 tragedy. The baby had been left alone with the car turned off for about two-and-a-half hours, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said in a news release.
Prosecutors will not seek jail time for Shurkin and instead recommend a term of probation at her sentencing, which is scheduled for July 23, Billhimer said.
A Denville man killed his mother and set their Indian Lakes section home on fire, authorities said.
Anthony Citro, 41, was charged with first-degree murder and arson after police and firefighters who responded to a fire on Monday found the remains of his mother inside the home they shared, authorities said.
Arriving at the scene on narrow, hilly Chestnut Hill Drive East, police found Citro outside the residence, with apparent blood on his clothing, said Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll.
The cause of death has been ruled homicide by the Morris County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Carroll identified the victim as Eileen Citro, 68. He charged her son on Tuesday after the Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the manner of death was sharp force injuries and ruled it a homicide.