The father of a Ridgefield toddler who died after he was left in a hot car for hours in July was in court on Friday and pleaded not guilty to one count of criminally negligent homicide.
Kyle Seitz, 36, was charged in connection with the death of his 15-month-old son Benjamin.
When he last appeared in court, a judge ruled that he could not have unsupervised visits with his two surviving children.
Seitz's son Benjamin died of hyperthermia after Seitz allegedly left him in the car while going to work at Owl Computing Technologies in Ridgefield on July 7.
Police said Seitz had forgotten to drop Benjamin off at daycare and left him alone "for an extended period of time" on a day when temperatures climbed to 88 degrees.
Benjamin's mother, Lindsay Rogers-Seitz, said in the past that Kyle Seitz went to pick up their son from daycare at the end of the day, then realized the little boy was still in the car and rushed his son to Danbury Hospital, where Benjamin was pronounced dead.
The little boy's death was ruled a homicide in August.
Seitz, who is on medical leave from work, is due back in court on Dec. 16.
