Did janitor steal to care for his children?

FORT PIERCE, FL--Police say a janitor at Samuel Gaines Academy in Fort Pierce cleaned
out a teacher's purse and took 4 laptop computers.
  
Investigators said they used a hidden camera to catch Donald Anthony Brown, Jr., grab 50 bucks from the purse and four-grand worth of computers.
  
They installed the camera after the same teacher found money missing once before. 

Brown says he used the money for socks and bottles for his child.

Investigators recovered two laptops at his girlfriend’s residence in the 1200 block of North 31st Street. The girlfriend said she didn’t know they were stolen.

Brown faces charges including two counts of petit theft and a single grand theft charge.