Hallandale Beach supermarket worker accused of abusing co-worker's daughter

Tyrone Daley, 56, is accused of sexually abusing his co-worker’s daughter for about three years inside an employee breakroom at a Broward County supermarket; the abuse began when the girl was 10 and continued until she was approaching 13. Prosecutors filed a first-degree felony case against Daley on June 29, and police served the arrest warrant on Sunday before corrections booked him into the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.

The allegations surfaced after the child told her mother that Daley had molested her. Hallandale Beach police and Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators examined what happened inside the Publix at 1400 East Hallandale Beach, where Daley worked as a stock clerk in the freezer department for about four years. The mother was bringing the girl to work when she did not have a babysitter, and the child often sat in the break room. Investigators later reviewed surveillance video that showed Daley looking around before entering the breakroom shortly after 9:55 p.m. on Feb. 17, and a Broward Sheriff’s Office DNA analyst found Daley’s DNA on the exterior crotch area of the girl’s pajama pants in April. The girl described the abuse as happening about 30 times during a forensic interview at the Nancy J. Cotterman Center in Oakland Park.

Florida law defines lewd or lascivious molestation as intentionally touching, in a lewd or lascivious manner, a child’s breasts, genitals, genital area, buttocks or the clothing covering them, or forcing a child to touch the perpetrator. Under Chapter 800.04, an adult offender who commits the offense against a victim younger than 12 commits a life felony, while the offense involving a victim who is 12 to under 16 is generally a second-degree felony.

A 2022 systematic review found 22 studies on sexual violence among autistic people, and nine reported elevated rates in autistic samples compared with non-autistic peers.