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Python Strangles 2-Year-Old Central Florida Girl

Art Klass said:
I think the burm got out twice. He found it in the hallway and then put it in the bag, in the tank. It got out again, however.....

He's clearly an idiot.
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True on both counts. The snake got out twice and he's an idiot.

Plus he's a bad keeper; he had the snake 9 years and it only weighed 12.3 pounds certainly not a power fed burm.
 
Art Klass said:
I think the burm got out twice. He found it in the hallway and then put it in the bag, in the tank. It got out again, however.....

He's clearly an idiot.
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Yeah, you're right. I guess I missed that part of the story. Not that I really buy the story.

Definitely an idiot no matter how you slice it.
 
Has anyone seen this?

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/l...killed-2-year-old/Um5tc4ct7UKyhytZUDpZDw.cspx

Man who owned snake that killed 2-year old arrested on drug charges
Reported by: Chad Cookler
Email: [email protected]
Last Update: 8/07 8:01 pm


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•Man whose python killed Sumter County girl is remorseful
OXFORD, FL -- The man whose pet snake killed his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter last month has been arrested on drug-related charges.

Deputies arrested 32-year-old Charles Darnell Friday afternoon following a one week investigation. According to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, undercover detectives bought cocaine from Darnell in front of his home on two separate occasions.

It's the same home where Darnell's 8 1/2 foot python strangled girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter, Shaiunna Hare, to death in July.

Darnell was pulled over just after 5 pm at the Bob's Jiffy Mart on Highway 44, where Darnell was taken into custody.

He is charged with two counts of sale of cocaine, two counts of possession of cocaine with intent to sell, two counts of unlawful use of a two-way communication device and two counts of keep shop for dangerous drugs.

He is in the Sumter County Jail on a $110,000 bond.

Prosecutors haven't decided whether Darnell or the girl's mother, Jaren Hare, should be charged with wrongdoing Shaiunnna's death.

At the time Darell told deputies he put the snake in an unlocked cage the night before, then found the snake in the bed on top of the girl when he woke up, according to authorities.
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I didn't read every word of everyones response so sorry if this is a repost. HOLY COW! Am I the only one stunned at how thin that snake is? No wonder it kept trying to escape. I'm not a burm owner, nor do I know very much about them. Even with my very basic knowledge that snake looks underfed to me. When I think about the girth of my ball pythons compare to that 9 foot snake I feel sorry for it.
 
Heard about that drug stuff the day after the little girl died. I was unsuccessful in finding something in writing though. I think I even mentioned drug charges in one of my earlier posts.

Just makes me think even more, that there was something else that happened to that poor little girl, and they used the Burm to cover it up.
 
Or they could have starved the poor thing to desperation, or made it crazy with drugs. The authorities had to cut the snake to get it off the child, didn't they?

I had a guy surrender a thin Cali King to my rescue this past winter, and the poor thing was constantly striking itself. I don't really keep snakes past the point of stabilizing critical ones, so I took it to a friend. It stopped doing that and started gaining almost immediately after it was removed from the home and turned over to her. It is beautiful and fat, and all healed up now, but while it was recovering, I did some research because she and I have both seen snakes much more emaciated than that and not striking themselves and self mutilating. I came across a few similar cases. One came from another rescue person who got a burm after a drug bust that started self mutilating shortly after she got it. Turns out, the drug dealer hid his stash in the snake cage and the poor snake was going through withdrawals. It didn't make it. :( Drug addicts do stupid things.
 
Wow, what a coincidence. My friends and I just got a Brazilian rainbow boa from someone who didn't want her anymore because she kept biting herself. When we got her, she was extremely emaciated; we could see the ridge of her backbone all down her back. The mice my friend fed her could easily be seen through her scales, and we could tell which mouse was the black one!

I guess I didn't realize snakes started biting themselves if they got too hungry. So sad. :-[

I'm confused about what's true in this story and what isn't. I've read several different numbers for the length of the snake, and now this article states that the tank wasn't locked at all when previous articles (and the guy himself, supposedly) said it was. If the tank wasn't locked and the snake had escaped either earlier that night or some other time before, both adults should be charged with child neglect.
 
I guess I didn't realize snakes started biting themselves if they got too hungry. So sad. :-[
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or because they are strung out on crack. Then again, it could have been starving as well.

I was told that the snake probably wouldn't survive, but she did. Did your rainbow survive as well?
 
Mother, Boyfriend Charged in Death of Florida Toddler Strangled by Python

Mother, Boyfriend Charged in Death of Florida Toddler Strangled by Python
Tuesday , August 25, 2009


Authorities say the mother of a Florida girl suffocated by a pet python last month has been charged in the child's death.

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office says 19-year-old Jaren Ashley Hare and her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charles Jason Darnell, were each charged Monday with manslaughter, third-degree murder and child abuse.

Two-year-old Shaianna Hare died July 1. Authorities say Darnell found the 8-foot python wrapped around her that morning.

He stabbed it several times and it eventually released her. A medical examiner determined the girl died from asphyxiation.

Hare and Darnell were each being held on $35,000 bond. Court documents that would list attorneys for them have not yet been processed.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542441,00.html?test=latestnews
 
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Here is a photo of the grieving couple--remember their faces...and when they get out of jail, DO NOT SELL THEM ANY SNAKES!
 
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Ooh, they gonna like him. He all soft and cuddly. :)

A question for you legal type though...I thought "murder" no matter the degree of the charge, was defined by "malice aforethought". ?? And manslaughter was any other form of wrongful death?

How they getting charged with both? If anyone knows Florida law.

But I think the snake should be cleared. I still don't think the snake did it.
 
The charges follow the rules of Florida law. However, at the time of trial only one charge or the other (manslaughter or third degree murder) will be considered. It meets the criteria for murder in that another crime was being committed (child abuse). Interesting that it turns out the snake really belonged to the mother. At least that helped in her being charged too.

These folks really rock. Meth, coke and child abuse charges. Improper care of animals. Improper care of children. Shame they both just don't get REALLY depressed and eat a gun before they crap out more kids.

Society couldn't be so lucky. :(
 
the only reason there being charged with manslaughter as oppose to murder is do to how it happened, however, the evidence will suggest murder and they will be charged accordingly, sooner or later. Since both were home when this happened, both will be treated as a single entity and the women will get off lighter than the guy will.

I wish they actually did a thorough autopsy so they could really prove it was them and not the snake, Sadly a dangerously damaging blow has still been dealt to us as a community before the facts were known about the parents....can we sue the bill makers now? Perhaps they should be the one's on trial anyway...
 
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