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http://www.wesh.com/news/20322933/detail.html

There is still an investigation as to whether or not the snake was housed in a proper enclosure? GEEEZZZZ!!!! no wonder government doesn't work..... how much proof do we need?

If I remember correctly there were two more children in the trailer, so IMO that should be two more counts of child endangerment along with the idiots drug charges.

For what is worth and I just want to say it "I detest you Charles Darnell" You pitiful excuse for a human being!!!

I realize people make mistakes Lord knows I have made mine but I always took ownership of them, this creep Darnell has caused pain in my life and I don't even know the punk a$$ fool.

This is all about the senseless loss of life, not really the python and even less about the mouth brooders home drug business, I think he is responsible for her death directly or indirectly...it doesn't matter that little angel is gone
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Joel Thomas

Don't tread on me!

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jul/03/autopsy-pet-python-crushed-toddler-now-question-fa/

I read the following qoute in the above article:

"This week, Darnell told investigators that he found the snake loose in the living room in the early hours of Wednesday, that it had gotten out of the terrarium, which was covered only with a quilt. He put the snake in a sack, he said, then put the sack back in the terrarium, then covered the terrarium with the quilt again, this time trying to tie it down with a string."

Jeez, what's improper about a quilt and a good piece of string?
It's child negligence and pure idiocy at the very least but I think they should be looking a little more closely at the girls death. The more I read the more suspicous the whole thing seems to me. The fact that the python supposedly bit her on the same spot on both arms and on the forehead seems fishy too.

i actually know someone who knew the guy and the burm in question was kept in a aquarium with a screen lid and barbell weights on the top and we all know that wont keep a large constrictor in its cage. burms were the first constrictors i kept and bred but even as a young man/teenager i kept them in 6x3x2 wood cages with double sliding doors and quarter inch plexi glass with jewelry case locks inableing the doors to slide open.. the cost of these cages for me to make at the time was only around a 100 bucks then.. and that was not the first time that animal had escaped from its cage very sad!