L. NAZARETH TWP., Pa. – A father charged with murder after the death of a baby girl in Northampton County could face trial.<\/p>\n
Daniel Moist waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday, according to court documents. That sets the stage for a possible trial.<\/p>\n
His formal arraignment is set for Oct. 8.<\/p>\n
Northampton County District Attorney Stephen Baratta said Moist left his 14-month-old daughter in the backseat of his car in Lower Nazareth Township, on a day when the region was under an excessive heat warning.<\/p>\n
Moist, 38, of Nazareth, is 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 paperwork.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, on June 11, Moist had dropped off his seven-year-old daughter at Pen Argyl High School for a sports camp and was supposed to drop his 14-month-old daughter off at a daycare center.<\/p>\n
Baratta said the investigation revealed that Moist has a routine of traveling four days a week to drop off his 14-month-old baby at the daycare center.<\/p>\n
Instead, Baratta said Moist drove by the daycare, continuing his drive to his work in Hanover Township and making a pitstop to purchase energy drinks.<\/p>\n
The baby was left in the car from 10 a.m. until after 4 p.m., according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Moist received a call from his wife, saying she went to pick the baby up from the daycare and was informed their daughter had not been dropped off that day.<\/p>\n
After the call, Moist then allegedly left his office, went to his car in the parking lot and discovered the baby girl dead in a car seat in the back of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Moist got into the car, began driving, called 911 was directed to pull over,” Baratta said.<\/p>\n
That’s when Moist stopped his car in the lot of the ID Logistics on Hanoverville Road, while waiting for police.<\/p>\n
A representative from ID Logistics said none of their employees or known affiliates were involved.<\/p>\n
Investigators described Moist as having “glassy, bloodshot eyes”; a blood test later revealed that Moist had marijuana and THC in his system, according to court records.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Moist’s attorney Gary Asteak said: “Let there be no rush to judgment. This was a horrible family tragedy, a family’s worst nightmare but to cast blame now is unfair and reflects a lack of compassion. When the whole story is told, it will bring tears to everyone’s eyes. Daniel is innocent and a jury may be needed to hear the whole truth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L. NAZARETH TWP., Pa. – A father charged with murder after the death of a baby girl in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,117709,117708,53828,25990,434,1112],"class_list":["post-281646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-child-left-in-car","tag-hot-car-death","tag-manslaughter","tag-murder-charge","tag-northampton-county","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281646","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=281646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}