STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A man and woman from Brooklyn were indicted on charges following the death of their son, who authorities say was exposed to fentanyl.

On Friday, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Yitzchok Sklar, 33, and Miriam Elkayam, 27, were arraigned on manslaughter charges for the death of their 4-year-old son, Aron Sklar.

In addition to manslaughter, the parents face charges of criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a controlled substance.

“This indictment alleges a heartbreaking level of neglect that resulted in a fatal overdose of a four-year-old boy. Parents have a fundamental responsibility to keep their children safe, and by allegedly allowing fentanyl and other narcotics into their residence, these defendants failed in that duty,” Gonzalez said in a statement.

Prosecutors say that on March 4, 2025, police and EMS responded to a 911 call at a family shelter in East Flatbush where Elkayam, Yitzchok Sklar and Aron Sklar were living after the 4-year-old boy was found unresponsive.

Although EMTs administered Narcan to the boy and transported him to a nearby hospital, Aron Sklar was later pronounced dead.

After a toxicology report, officials said his cause of death was due to fentanyl exposure.

Authorities added that in the course of investigating, “suspected fentanyl and other narcotics were allegedly recovered from the defendants’ residence, along with drug paraphernalia.”

At the arraignment, Yitzchok Sklar was remanded without bail and Elkayam was held on bail of $500,000 cash or $1 million bond.

In early February, Yitzchok Sklar and another person, Ahuva Katzin, were also brought up on federal drug charges.

Federal prosecutors say they “conspired to distribute fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine” between 2023 and 2025.

“As alleged, Ahuva Katzin and Yitzchok Sklar sold drugs that caused the tragic death of Sklar’s own child,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton in a statement. “Instead of stopping, they allegedly continued to distribute fentanyl and other dangerous drugs across New York.”