Sentenced: 2 Florida Foxes - Mom Locked Starving Kids In Shed & Grandma 'Refused' To Watch Them

[Sugar Cookie]

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, and spoke with two witnesses who had found the children, both of them 5-year-old girls, locked in a shed.

The witnesses told law enforcement that the kids were locked inside the structure with a brick placed against the door, "apparently to prevent them from leaving," the sheriff's office wrote in a social media post. There was no electricity or running water inside, and a large knife was placed on top of one of the girls' backpacks "and could have been a hazard if the knife would have fallen or been knocked over while the children were sleeping," an arrest report of Stoiber stated.

Furthermore, the girls "had been left without food or any way to call for help."

The children were not severely hurt, but deputies described both girls as being malnourished, disheveled, and dirty, Orlando Fox affiliate WOFL reported.

According to the sheriff's office, Stoiber, reportedly the girls' mother, said she "stepped away for a quick errand" and left the children in Thrift's care. However, law enforcement said Stoiber ended up being gone for several hours, and Thrift, said to be the girls' grandmother, "allegedly refused to supervise them."

After Stoiber's departure, Thrift said she stayed at the shed for about two hours, according to Stoiber's arrest report. However, she then left in search of Stoiber because "she did not want to babysit the children" — a trip that took two hours. Within this time period, deputies were called to the shed.

Thrift ended up finding Stoiber and telling her that she was "not a babysitter" and that Stoiber "needed to learn her lesson," according to Thrift's arrest report.

The arrest report also states that the witnesses who called the sheriff's office detailed how, earlier the following day, Stoiber arrived at their residence "soaking wet" with the two girls, claiming to have walked from Gainesville to Waldo, roughly 14 miles. When one of the witnesses gave a "footlong sandwich" for them to eat, Stoiber reportedly ate the entire thing without sharing it with the girls. After allegedly locking the girls in the shed, she then left to go to a store with her boyfriend.

Mom locked kids in shed next to highway after grandma 'refused' to watch them: Deputies

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.

lawandcrime.com

These children need to be removed from Stoiber immediately

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Name:	STOIBER, TAMARA

Supervision Begin Date:	11/03/2025
Current Location:	LAKE CITY
Current Status:	ACTIVE
Supervision Type:	PROBATION FELONY
Scheduled Termination Date:	11/02/2028

Current Community Supervision History:​

Offense Date	Offense	Sentence Date	County	Case No.	Community Supervision Length
06/28/2025	CHILD NEGLECT	11/03/2025	ALACHUA	2501947	3Y 0M 0D

Name:	THRIFT, SABINE

Supervision Begin Date:	10/13/2025
Current Location:	GAINESVILLE
Current Status:	ACTIVE
Supervision Type:	PROBATION FELONY
Scheduled Termination Date:	10/12/2028

Current Community Supervision History:​

Offense Date	Offense	Sentence Date	County	Case No.	Community Supervision Length
06/28/2025	CHILD NEGLECT	10/13/2025	ALACHUA	2501947	3Y 0M 1D

 

[Busy Bee]

That’s a hard knock life!! Oh Dear I hope the children are not with them!! Very telling story about the sandwich!! Makes It obvious that’s how she treated them! And “granny “ too very sad , between those two the children are doomed!!

 

[BuffettGirl]

I'd like to put Tamara in a cell for 72-96 hours with NO food, scant water access too. Then I'd mosey over and plop down right in front of the fucking cow and slowly eat, taking tiny bites to savor, the biggest sandwich I could find, just to extend the torture. Then feed her some watery gruel, and start the process over again. And then again. And again. How long before she learns the lesson?