A father charged with causing his 15-month-old son 's death by leaving the boy in a hot car has entered a plea . Kyle Seitz of Ridgefield , Connecticut , entered a so-called Alford plea in which he did n't admit guilt but agreed the prosecution has enough evidence to convict him at trial . A guilty finding was entered on the record . Authorities say the 37-year-old Seitz forgot to take his son , Benjamin , to day care on July 7 and unintentionally left him in the car for more than seven hours while he went to work . Temperatures that day hit the upper 80s . Kyle Seitz ( pictured in court in November ) told police he accidentally left his 15-month-old son on the backseat of the car for the entire day on July 7 . Sentencing is scheduled for April 9 with the crime carrying a maximum one-year sentence . 15-month-old Benjamin Seitz ( left and right ) died as a result of hyperthermia after being left in a hot car by his father in Connecticut last summer . Seitz drove his car three times with his toddler dead in the back seat after forgetting him when he went into work , prosecutors said at a hearing in November . He went to lunch and back , then drove to his son 's daycare after work before finally realizing the 15-month-old was dead in his Jeep Cherokee . The software programmer told the authorities that he 'felt shock and terror ' when he discovered that his son was in the back seat 'motionless ' . After discovering Benjamin lying unresponsive on the car 's back seat , he rushed the toddler to Danbury Hospital , where he was pronounced dead . Benjamin died as a result of hyperthermia due to environmental exposure . Seitz was charged with criminally negligent homicide . Seitz , who has two daughters , aged eight and six , has been free on bail . Sentencing is scheduled for April 9 . The crime carries a maximum one-year sentence . Just weeks after Benjamin 's death , the child 's mother , Lindsey Rogers-Seitz , said she forgave her husband of 12 years , describing the Owl Computing Technologies employee as an 'amazing father ' . ' I love my husband , ' she told the Associated Press at the time . 'Of course I forgive him . But it does n't mean that our lives are n't different now . 'So we have to move forward with a new different reality for us , and it 's always going to be that way . ' Kyle Seitz drove his car three times with his toddler son Benjamin dead in the back seat after forgetting him when he went into work last July .
Kyle Seitz , of Connecticut , entered a so-called Alford plea in which he did n't admit guilt but agreed there was enough evidence to convict him . Seitz forgot to take son , Benjamin , to day care last July and unintentionally left him in the car for more than seven hours while he went to work .