Pet python escapes, kills girl in Fla.

Jul 2nd, 2009 - Boston

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OXFORD, Fla. - An 8-foot pet Burmese python broke out of an aquarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom yesterday at a central Florida home, authorities said.

Shaunnia Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at the scene about 10 a.m., Lieutenant Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County sheriff's office said.

Charles Jason Darnell, the snake's owner and the boyfriend of Shaunnia's mother, discovered the snake missing from its aquarium and went to the girl's room, where he found it on the girl and bite marks on her head, Caruthers said. Darnell, 32, stabbed the snake until he was able to pry the child away.

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