A baby boy was found crawling across a road in New Jersey on Sept. 22, prompting an investigation.
(Cory Black Cannon)
A father was charged Friday after a baby was spotted crawling across a New Jersey road by a driver.
Evgeniy Dorman, 41, was charged with cruelty and neglect of a child after he surrendered himself to police just after 1 p.m., Asbury Park Press reported. He was released pending a future court date.
The shocking incident that occurred on Sept. 22 caught nationwide attention after a photo of the crawling baby in Lakewood appeared in a since-deleted Facebook post. Cory Cannon, who posted the photo, told the Asbury Park Press he thought the child was a toy until he saw movement.
"I thought it was a toy or something until she moved," he told the newspaper. "I knew I needed to get some sort of proof and my GPS was open on my phone, so I used my work vehicle to slow down traffic behind me and took the pic as I was exiting the vehicle and halting oncoming cars."
A neighbor took the baby back to his parents, who didn’t know the child was gone until he was returned home.
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The child was unharmed in the incident.
Police discovered the 10-month-old boy had crawled about 140 feet from an open door, probably left open by an older sibling, to the street where he was later found by Cannon.
A woman who identified herself as the caretaker said the incident was an accident.
Fox News’ Travis Fedschun contributed to this report.
Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam
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