{"id":169607,"date":"2026-03-20T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:45:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-parents-charged-in-death-of-4-year-old-exposed-to-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169607\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn parents charged in death of 4-year-old exposed to fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn district attorney announced today that the parents of 4-year-old Aron Sklar were arraigned on an indictment charging them in connection with the child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Yitzchok Sklar, 33, and Miriam Elkayam, 27, were charged with second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Aron was exposed to fentanyl in an East Flatbush family shelter where he lived with his parents. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-2-charged-including-mom-after-4-year-old-boy-dies-in-east-flatbush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found unresponsive<\/a> by police and emergency personnel on March 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indictment alleges a heartbreaking level of neglect that resulted in a fatal overdose of a 4-year-old boy,\u201d Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. \u201cParents 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/4-year-old-found-unresponsive-at-east-flatbush-shelter-dies-parents-questioned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">given Narcan<\/a> in an attempt to reverse the impact of the drugs, but it was not successful.<\/p>\n<p>Toxicology reports confirmed that the child\u2019s cause of death was exposure to fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Yitzchok Sklar, along with another man, 33-year-old Ahuva Katzin, was <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2-brooklyn-men-face-federal-charges-almost-1-year-after-4-year-old-boy-dies-from-drug-poisoning-in-east-flatbush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously arrested<\/a> on federal charges in relation to the case for conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn district attorney announced today that the parents of 4-year-old Aron Sklar were arraigned on an indictment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,6277,9,24,63,3579],"class_list":["post-169607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fentanyl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shelter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}