A Lady Lake father accused of killing his infant daughter had been turned down a year before his death on a Social Security Administration mental health disability application.
Jeremy Main, 43, could face the death penalty if convicted of deliberately drowning his 18-month-old daughter in a bathtub at his home. He has been held without bond since October 9, 2017, at the Lake County Jail on a first-degree murder charge.
A document filed in Lake County Court contains the disclosure that Main had filed an application for Social Security disability compensation “based on mental illness.” His request was denied on July 21, 2016.
The day of the baby’s death, Main turned himself in at the Sumter County Sheriff’s Annex in The Villages. Hours earlier, Main had called his wife, who was working in Ocala. He reportedly told her that he had killed her daughter. He made a frantic call to 911 and soon Lake County Sheriff’s deputies rushed to the family’s home on Redbug Road in rural Lady Lake. They discovered that the girl had drowned in a bathtub.
Judge James Baxley recently wrote a letter to potential jurors whose names have been selected for possible jury duty. He indicates in the letter that the trial could begin on January 31 and would be completed no later than February 4. From the pool of potential jurors that has been convened, 15 will be selected to serve at trial.
