Staff report
WALDO, Fla. – Sabine Thrift, 59, was arrested early this morning for allegedly leaving two five-year-old girls sleeping in a shed without electricity or water.
At about 2:55 a.m. on June 28, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to a property in the 13600 block of NE U.S. Hwy 301 in Waldo, where witnesses said they had found two five-year-old girls asleep in a shed with a brick blocking the door. The deputy noted that the shed’s door was only held closed by the brick and the shed is only about 100 feet from the highway, so the children could have pushed their way out and wandered onto the highway in an area that was not well-lit…