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  • July 1: Authorities in Oxford, central Florida, wrangle with a pet Burmese python after the snake strangled and killed 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare in her crib.
  • Shaiunna Hare, 2 (right), who was strangled by the family's pet python
  • July 1: Law enforcement officials remove an 8-foot, 5-inch-long pet python from a home in central Florida after the snake strangled and killed 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare in her crib.
  • July 1: Officials capture a pet python at a central Florida home that was stabbed after attacking and killing 2-year-old girl Shaiunna Hare.
  • July 1, 2009: Law enforcement officials remove a 12-foot long albino Burmese python from the home where it killed 2-year-old Shaunnia Hare in Oxford, Fla. 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. Darnell, 32, stabbed the snake until he was able to pry the child away.
  • July 1: Officials capture a pet python at a central Florida home that was stabbed after attacking and killing a 2-year-old girl as she slept.
  • July 1: Officials wrestle with the 8-foot, 5-inch-long pet python that killed a Florida toddler as she slept.
  • July 1: Authorities in Oxford, central Florida, wrangle with a pet Burmese python after the snake strangled and killed 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare in her crib.
  • July 1, 2009: Charles J. Darnell, right, hugs Jaren Hare, mother of a child apparently killed by his pet python, at their home in Oxford, Fla. Shaunnia Hare, 2, was already dead when paramedics arrived the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.
  • July 1, 2009: Charles J. Darnell, left, hugs Jaren Hare, mother of a child apparently killed by his pet python, accompanied by officials outside their home in Oxford, Fla. Shaunnia Hare, 2, was already dead when paramedics arrived the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.
  • July 1: One of the children who lived in the Oxford, Fla., house with 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare, tells WOFL that they all played with the family's pet python. The snake killed the toddler after escaping from its tank and strangling her.