ceduke
Female Wiccan Heretic!!
It weighed 13.5 pounds, it was skin and bones.
This is not what a 5 year old Burm should look like.
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Trial to begin in case of python that killed toddle
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It weighed 13.5 pounds, it was skin and bones.
This is not what a 5 year old Burm should look like.
ShenziSixaxis
Sticking To The Ceiling
Wow... so is animal cruelty on the charges list? (I don't have time to go re-read everything.)
Nanci
Alien Lover
Sorry, I was driving to the vet when I heard the news. All that was said was they were convicted of child neglect and third degree murder. They haven't been sentenced. They were offered a 10 year plea deal before the trial and turned it down. Now they face a max of 35 years. I hope they get it. They have a kid, though, so here we go, slap on the hand...
ShenziSixaxis
Sticking To The Ceiling
Or officials will fear they'll kill that kid too.
ARiley144
New member
I personally think they should get longer. The reptile expert said the snake was malnourished and way too small...as far as I know a snake is an animal and there are still animal cruelty charges and fines and such...just ask Michael Vick. I think they should have neglect and animal cruelty added to thier charges.
I think a few more charges needed to be added to the list... The picture of that snake makes me sick... 13.5 pounds...
This whole case makes me sick! A quilt as a lid to keep any size snake in a tank is no use, even a baby corn snake could get out of that! The fact that the woman's mother offered to buy the snakes, buy a lid or have her husband craft a lid and it was refused? That just doesn't make any since to me, if you know the snake escapes from the current tank/lid then do something about it. I don't care how tame the snake it, it shouldn't be wondering around the house! (reminds me of a burm that was up for sale on Craigs list, they didn't have a tank for it because it slept in the bed with them...)
And how did the snake get a road kill squirrel? Did it get outside to eat it or did these people grab it off the side of the road?!
I feel so sorry for the baby girl. I don't know if the parents killed her or if the snake just saw what seemed like an easy meal after not being fed for a month(and not often before that). I hope those people get the max, they should rot in jail.
Let us know what they get.
This whole case makes me sick! A quilt as a lid to keep any size snake in a tank is no use, even a baby corn snake could get out of that! The fact that the woman's mother offered to buy the snakes, buy a lid or have her husband craft a lid and it was refused? That just doesn't make any since to me, if you know the snake escapes from the current tank/lid then do something about it. I don't care how tame the snake it, it shouldn't be wondering around the house! (reminds me of a burm that was up for sale on Craigs list, they didn't have a tank for it because it slept in the bed with them...)
And how did the snake get a road kill squirrel? Did it get outside to eat it or did these people grab it off the side of the road?!
I feel so sorry for the baby girl. I don't know if the parents killed her or if the snake just saw what seemed like an easy meal after not being fed for a month(and not often before that). I hope those people get the max, they should rot in jail.
Let us know what they get.
Nanci
Alien Lover
SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. -- A medical examiner testified on Wednesday in the case of a Sumter County couple on trial for the death of a toddler who was killed by a pet python that was kept in their home.
The two defendants, Jaren Hare and Charles Darnell chose not to testify on Wednesday, but a snake expert did. He was asked about the couple's 8 1/2 foot-long, female Burmese python. The snake expert said he would expect a Burmese python of its age to be almost twice the length and 140 pounds in size.
Two-year-old Shaianna Hare's heart was still pumping as a python coiled itself around her body while she laid in her crib unable to breathe, the medical examiner said.
"There were several clusters of puncture wounds and superficial linear lacerations that represented bites from the snake as the snake was trying to ingest her, basically," said Wendy Lavezzi, deputy medical examiner.
So it sounds like the snake did kill the child.
I haven't heard when they are supposed to be sentenced. They were both convicted of three things, neglect, manslaughter and third degree murder.
The two defendants, Jaren Hare and Charles Darnell chose not to testify on Wednesday, but a snake expert did. He was asked about the couple's 8 1/2 foot-long, female Burmese python. The snake expert said he would expect a Burmese python of its age to be almost twice the length and 140 pounds in size.
Two-year-old Shaianna Hare's heart was still pumping as a python coiled itself around her body while she laid in her crib unable to breathe, the medical examiner said.
"There were several clusters of puncture wounds and superficial linear lacerations that represented bites from the snake as the snake was trying to ingest her, basically," said Wendy Lavezzi, deputy medical examiner.
So it sounds like the snake did kill the child.
I haven't heard when they are supposed to be sentenced. They were both convicted of three things, neglect, manslaughter and third degree murder.