Bail Reduction Denied for Man Accused of Child Endangerment

A Williamstown man accused of child endangerment was denied a reduction of his $7,500 bail today in Gloucester County Superior Court.

According to a statement released by the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, 32-year-old Ahmet Bolat failed to comply with the terms of his probation and was legally considered a fugitive of justice at the time of his April 7 arrest.

In that statement, Superior Court Judge John Waters said that he couldn't approve a bail reduction without knowing the details of why Bolat did not comply with the terms of his release.

Waters noted the court's “obvious concern for the welfare and safety of the victims”—i.e., Bolat's 5- and 13-year-old children—and ordered him to have “no contact” with them as a condition of any bail obligation.

Bolat is alleged to have "fled his apartment where a stove fire eventually was doused by a sprinkler system" without his children, according to a statement provided by the Prosecutor's Office.

Bolat contends that he took them to family across the street; another resident of the building told police she "saw Bolat flee and she then retrieved the children and placed them in her car."