Here is the link to watch the senate hearing. If your following this as closely as I am you have probably already hunted it down yourself. But for those who have not seen it yet. Senator Bill Nelson from Florida does alittle show and tell with a python skin and goes over the details of the tragic death of 2 year old Shaiunna Hare.
Of course he leaves out the small details about how the owner of the snake had no permits the cage had no lock and that social services had been called previously concerning drugs being used and sold in front of the children. Or that Darnell had very recently been arrested for marijuana and suspected cocaine. That being said I in no way mean to downplay the death of this poor girl or make excuses. I just wanted to shed alittle more light on the situation.
Nelson waving around a few stacks of paper pleads the senate to add specifically the Burmese Python to the list of injurious species. To ban them as a pet and to ban them from being imported.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=38009204-802a-23ad-4d13-f2bfbd089682
