Jul 1st, 2009 - San Jose Mercury News
OXFORD, Fla. — A 2-year-old girl was strangled by a 12-foot Burmese python today inside a central Florida home, authorities said.
The snake was a family pet, not one of a fast-growing population of nonnative pythons that has been spreading in the wild in southern Florida.
Lt. Steve Binegar, of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, said the toddler was strangled by the snake in the town of Oxford, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando. Pythons can kill by wrapping themselves around a human. Paramedics said the girl was dead when they arrived at about 10 a.m. EDT. Authorities did not release the girl's name.
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