Apr 9, 2008 12:24 am US/Eastern
Father's Call Inadvertently Leads Cops To His Son
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Neighbors Describe Jermaine McLymont As A Good Kid
They Say He Just Made A Bad Choice
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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Jermaine McLymont was allegedly caught fixing the car used in the hit and run accident that killed the 4-year-old girl in Sunrise.
A Ft. Lauderdale father tried to do the right thing: He told police he had found the car that may have hit a four year old girl in Sunrise last week. Turns out his call to police led him to inadvertently turn in his own son.
Cornelius McLymont had to make the tough call to let police know that the car that hit and killed 4-year-old Veronica Ford and then sped away was in his Fort Lauderdale body shop.
"When I came here Saturday morning, I saw the damage on the fender and when we look over I saw some damage on the roof," said McLymont.
Making it worse for him, that call focused attention on his own son Jermaine. He was arrested. Police say Jermaine McLymont was trying to cover up the damage on the car, protecting his friend Charles Sanford--known as CJ, the man suspected of driving in the accident.
"I have children and my heart goes out of her," said McLymont. "Like I say, I have grandkids and it's wrong what that kid do, and he should never get my son involved in something like this."
"Mr. Sanford, you're charged with failure to rain stopped at an accident involving death," said the judge in bond court Tuesday.
CJ and Jermaine live right down the street from each other, and not far from the spot where Veronica was killed. Neighbors say CJ is not a bad guy--just a kid who made a terrible decision.
"He's not a monster as some people want to think," said Fred, a neighbor who only wants us to use his first name.
"And somebody have to talk for him. He's not a monster, you understand."
Sanford is being held inside the Broward County Jail in lieu of more than 20,000 bond. McLymont has since bailed out of the Broward County Jail.
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