This town is actually 15 mintutes away from me and this was all over the local news. It looked like a very healthy kingsnake to be paving his own way in the wilds of long island.

My guess is that someone either let it loose or it escaped and ended up with the baby shortly afterwords.

None the less the news took the "(dramatic voice and music)Imagine checking on your baby and finding a...dun dun dun" story angle on it.