Update on girl killed by python

[GoFride]

Remember the little 2 year old girl killed by a Burmese python here in Florida a couple of years ago? That case is about to make headlines all over again. The jury is being selected today. The mom and mom's boyfriend are charged with manslaughter and child neglect. They bought the snake at a flea market, hadn't been feeding it for a while, and were keeping it in a glass terrarium with a quilt for a cover. What a tragedy!

[fndjason4]

this is just great. i hate when idiots give a bad name to a good honest thing. i hope people will see this is human failure and not some bloodthirsty animal, but im sure this is just wishful thinking. (sorry for being insulting but i really really think these two deserve whatever they get). just my two cents.

[Skittles1101]

I agree these things just make me angry. STUPID people shouldn't be able to own pets of any kind. Any kind of animal is capable of killing someone (except a bunny or something like that...you know what I mean lol) if they are living in crappy and unsafe conditions. It's sad that these things happen and then the poor snake looks like the bad guy. I'm glad they are being charged though, clearly they were neglectful and unsafe.

[MasonC2K]

A quilt? Seriously?

[Skittles1101]

A quilt? Seriously?

What's wrong with a quilt? If I could use one thing to protect me from a huge hungry and neglected bermese python it'd be a quilt....

NOT!...it's ridiculous isn't it?

[Trogdorpheus]

I think they should require a license to own burms and retics and other large constrictors, that way we reduce the number of times morons get a hold of animals they can't handle.

[Maixx]

Is there a news link for this?

[BigJ]

I think they should require a license to own burms and retics and other large constrictors, that way we reduce the number of times morons get a hold of animals they can't handle.

I'm sorry but all that does is start to limit our rights which leads down a slippery slope of them eventually taking them away all together. Same thing goes for many other rights, mainly our right to bare arms...

[llovelace]

Burms are roc in Fl, a permit is required. The animal in question was in a tied pillowcase, in the aquarium, with a quilt as a cover , I'm wondering if what else he will be charged with as far as permitting, and animal neglect.

[GoFride]

Supposedly the last time they had fed the snake was a month prior, when they gave it a roadkill squirrel. It's my understanding that the two adults in the house did not have any money to provide food or proper housing for their pet.