Two Florida women were arrested after deputies responded to a report of a pair of 5-year-old children found abandoned and locked inside a shed, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a call early Saturday from a concerned citizen. The person reported that two children had been found left alone in Waldo, a small town east of Gainesville, according to a social media post from the sheriff’s office.
Witnesses had found the two children inside a shed. They told deputies the children had been locked inside the shed with a brick placed against the door, “apparently to prevent them from leaving,” the post stated.
“The shed had no electricity or running water, and deputies noted that a large knife was within the children’s reach. They had been left without food or any way to call for help,” it continued.
Witnesses identified two women connected to the incident. The investigation found that Tamara Stoiber, 37, had left the children in the care of Sabine Thrift, 59, but Thrift reportedly refused to supervise them…