PORT ST. LUCIE — A 42-year-old man was arrested after allegedly leaving his baby daughter alone in a vehicle at a business on South U.S. 1, according to an affidavit released Wednesday.

Tyrone R. Anderson, of the 1900 block of Southeast Hillmoor Drive in Port St. Lucie, faces a felony child neglect charge following the Tuesday afternoon incidents in the 10700 block of South U.S. 1.

A witness reported seeing the vehicle about 4:30 p.m. with the baby inside. The vehicle was running and no adult was present. The witness said another person indicated the vehicle was parked in the same spot about 3:45 p.m.
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Theresa Platt

Theresa Platt, 34, left her 6-year-old son and twin 3-year-old boys with a Port St. Lucie woman on Wednesday, telling her, “I don’t want my kids, you can have them!”

The woman told Port St. Lucie police that she had driven to Platt’s home in the 300 block of Northeast Solida Drive and offered to take her kids to school. But Platt reportedly told her she didn’t want her children any more and gave the woman their sleeping bags.

The woman also showed police numerous bug bites across the children’s legs and arms. She said Platt and the children had been living in a home in the 400 block of Southeast Seahorse Drive, which was infested with ants.

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Reginald Johnson

Two women told police they heard the boy crying inside a Honda Accord parked at the Sam’s Club on U.S. 1. It was shortly before 2 p.m. and the woman said the boy was sweating and told them he was hot, according to police.

Port St. Lucie resident Reginald Johnson told police he had gone to the discount store with his wife and son.

He said he and the child waited in the car while his wife was shopping. At one point he noticed that the boy was sleeping and said he left the windows slightly open and went inside to use the restroom. He said he had been gone only a few minutes.

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PORT ST. LUCIE — A woman was arrested on a child neglect charge this afternoon after police found her sleeping in her bathroom and the boy she was baby-sitting wandering outside, a department spokesman said.

A witness told police the 2-year-old boy was found on a canal bank behind a business plaza with two alligators in the water, police spokesman Officer Thomas Nichols said this afternoon. The boy was only wearing a dirty shirt, according to a police report. Police searched the area and found an open door at a home nearby.

When police got to his babysitter’s house in the 2300 block of Southwest Seafury Lane at around 2 p.m., they found 26-year-old Brandy Albright sleeping on a toilet, Nichols said.

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