A mother and a grandmother of two young kids have been arrested after the children were found unsupervised and locked in a dark shed next to a highway, authorities said.
Tamara Stoiber, 37, and Sabine Thrift, 59, have each been charged with two counts of child neglect, while Stoiber has also been charged with two counts of false imprisonment, according to court records. They are both in the custody of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office in Florida.
Early Saturday morning, at about 3 a.m., a “concerned citizen” called a sheriff’s deputy saying two children were abandoned in the area of Waldo, a small town northeast of Gainesville. Deputies arrived to the 13500 block of Northeast U.S. Highway 301 and spoke with two witnesses who had found the children, both of them 5-year-old girls, locked in a shed…