DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — YITZCHOK SKLAR, 33, and Miriam Elkayam, 27, were indicted on Friday in connection with the death of their four-year-old son Aron Sklar, who was allegedly exposed to fentanyl in the East Flatbush family shelter where he lived with his parents, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
The couple was arraigned before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo and 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. Sklar was remanded without bail and Elkayam was held on a $500,000 cash bail or $1 million bond. They were ordered to return to court on May 1.
On March 4, 2025, emergency personnel responded to a 911 call at a family shelter on Glenwood Road after the boy was found unresponsive; he was later pronounced dead of fentanyl exposure. Suspected fentanyl, other narcotics and paraphernalia were allegedly recovered from the parents’ residence, Gonzales said in a release.
“This indictment alleges a heartbreaking level of neglect that resulted in a fatal overdose of a four-year-old boy,” he said.
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