14 DAY TRIAL // A young father from Cleveland, Ohio has been arrested over letting his 9-year-old daughter get behind the wheel of a vehicle.
Police reports, conveyed by The Smoking Gun, show that 23-year-old Jaron McGee was teaching the girl how to drive and he let her take control of the car.
They were doing rounds in the parking lot at Headlands State Park, 9692 Headlands Road, a spokesperson for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office stated.
According to the News Herald, the driving lesson took place before 8:13 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, in Painesville Township.
The girl was allowed to drive her father's purple four-door 1998 Honda and she accelerated, picking up speed, losing control of the vehicle and smashing it into a tree.
“However the child lost control of the car after achieving excessive speed, and drove directly into the large tree,” Chief Deputy Frank Leonbruno says.
McGee called relatives that came in and took the girl away after the crash. She was reportedly uninjured but deputies are set to check up on her condition.
McGee also escaped the accident unscathed but he was charged by the Sheriff’s Office afterwards.
He has been arrested for child endangerment and wrongful entrustment and he was detained and transported to the county jail house.
The two counts are first-degree misdemeanors, Inquisitr describes. Wrongful entrustment refers to allowing someone with an invalid driver's license, one that has been taken out of circulation or, in this case, a person with no license at all to drive your vehicle.
McGee's court hearing has been set for Monday in Painesville Municipal Court at 1 p.m. Once they arrested him, police found out that he was due to face outstanding warrant in other jurisdictions.
He will be facing the two other charges, one of which is for a felony while the other is a misdemeanor warrant.