article_snippet.sent: A Connecticut judge spared today a father from prison time in the death of the young son the young son left in a car on a hot day, saying the young son had suffered enough.
article_snippet.sent: Kyle Seitz, 37, of Ridgefield, received two years of conditional release, a sentence similar to probation, at the hearing in Danbury Superior Court after his lawyer read aloud a letter written by his lawyer wife asking A Connecticut judge for leniency on his lawyer behalf.
article_snippet.sent: Spared: A Connecticut judge spared Kyle Seitz, pictured in court in November, from prison time in the July death of A Connecticut judge 15-month-old son, Benjamin (right) whom A Connecticut judge left in a hot car .
article_snippet.sent: Lindsey Rogers-Seitz pleaded guilty March 10 to criminally negligent homicide under an Alford plea, in which Lindsey Rogers-Seitz did not admit guilt but agreed the prosecution had enough evidence to convict Lindsey Rogers-Seitz at trial.
article_snippet.sent: Lindsey Rogers-Seitz had been facing up to a year in prison.
article_snippet.sent: I cannot punish Lindsey Rogers-Seitz more than this event has punished Lindsey Rogers-Seitz, nor would I choose to do so,' Judge Kevin Russo said, according to WCBS.
article_snippet.sent: Seitz, who has two other children, has been free on bail.
highlights_snippet.sent: Kyle Seitz, 37, of Connecticut, entered a so-called Alford plea in which Seitz didn't admit guilt but agreed there was enough evidence to convict Seitz .
  