LOWER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — We continue to follow a developing story out of Northampton County, where police and emergency crews responded to a tragic scene Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Northampton County District Attorney has confirmed that a toddler was found dead inside a car in Lower Nazareth Township.<\/p>\n
Investigators cleared the scene at around 6:30 p.m.. Both the DA and the coroner spent the afternoon outside a local logistics facility, trying to piece together exactly how this tragedy happened.<\/p>\n
Just after 4 p.m., emergency crews rushed to the 4000 block of Hanoverville Road for a report of an unresponsive child.<\/p>\n
Authorities say a toddler was found dead inside her father’s car, which was parked in a nearby industrial lot.<\/p>\n
“This is in the beginning of an investigation,” said District Attorney Stephen Baratta. “I can confirm that the decedent was a female child, approximately 15 months old.”<\/p>\n
As crews left the parking lot this afternoon, District Attorney Stephen Baratta described a scene that was difficult to process.<\/p>\n
“I actually didn’t look in the car because I really wasn’t interested to. It’s kind of an upsetting picture from what I understand. But allegedly the child had been in the car for some time. As in all day,” said DA Baratta.<\/p>\n
The Northampton County coroner confirmed the toddler was found dead in a car seat while the car was in the lot of ID Logistics.<\/p>\n
An ID Logistics spokesperson issued a statement expressing heartbreak, saying in part, “No employees or affiliates were involved. Our thoughts are with the family and the community during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
Colonial Regional police, the Northampton County DA’s office and the coroner’s office will continue to lead the investigation.<\/p>\n
DA Baratta tells 69 News it will take time to be able to release further details or make statements on any potential charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — We continue to follow a developing story out of Northampton County, where police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,5750,434],"class_list":["post-216988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-nazareth-northampton-area","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}