NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Northampton County father has been charged in connection with the death of his 14-month-old daughter after authorities say she was left inside a vehicle for several hours last month.<\/p>\n
Daniel Jeffrey Moist has been charged with third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person and leaving a child unattended in a vehicle, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Colonial Regional Police responded shortly after 4:15 p.m. on June 11 to Hanoverville Road for a report of an unresponsive child.<\/p>\n
Officers found Moist outside his parked 2019 Ford Explorer. His 14-month-old daughter was discovered unresponsive in a rear-facing child safety seat inside the SUV. She was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit of probable cause, Moist told investigators he left home that morning with both of his daughters. After dropping off his older daughter at a sports camp around 9 a.m., he was supposed to take the toddler to her daycare in Easton, a responsibility police said he regularly handled.<\/p>\n
Instead, investigators allege Moist stopped at a gas station before driving to his workplace in Bethlehem Township, where he remained throughout the day, believing his daughter had already been dropped off.<\/p>\n
Police said the situation came to light shortly after 4 p.m. when Moist received a call from his wife, who had gone to pick up their daughter from daycare and was told the child had never arrived.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Moist returned to his vehicle, found the toddler still inside, called 911 and began driving toward Lehigh Valley Hospital before stopping in a business parking lot on Hanoverville Road to await emergency responders.<\/p>\n
Court records show the charges were filed Thursday. A preliminary hearing has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Northampton County father has been charged in connection with the death of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-233982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233982","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=233982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}