Florida
anyone remember this? they go to trial monday.
they have since had another baby. she has had 3 children removed from her custody. he was not baby daddy of this girl.
they did not have a permit for snake as required.

THE EMACIATED SNAKE HAD NOT BEEN FED FOR A MONTH.

the snake is still living in captivity. but will not be brought to court.

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Two years ago, a python snake killed a toddler as she slept in her crib in Sumter County.

Now, the girl's mother Jaren Hare and her boyfriend Charles Darnell are about to go on trial for the child's death.

The death of 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare shocked Central Florida and made national headlines.

With the trial nearing next week, people in the community are getting frustrated.

“You take a small child that age, there is no way that child could've moved the snake, gotten the snake off of them,” said Lisa Johnson. “So there is going to be a lot of emotion. I'm afraid the courthouse is going to be swamped.”

Prosecutors said the Burmese python had escaped from its cage several times before it wrapped around Shaiunna and killed her.

Hare and Darnell could face up to 50 years in prison if convicted.









what is this fucker grinning about?



original report:
The mother of a two-year-old girl strangled by a Burmese python snake and her live-in boyfriend have been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter over the toddler's death.

Jaren Ashley Hare, 19, and Charles Jason Darnell, 32, also face child-abuse counts, according to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office in Florida, California.

The charges come nearly two months after the July 1 the death of little Shaiunna Hare, who was killed by the snake in her crib.

The mother turned herself into the Wildwood Police Department Monday after a warrant was issued by the 5^th Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office. Darnell, who was already incarcerated at the Sumter County Jail on unrelated narcotics charges, was notified of the three new charges yesterday.

The attack in the rural community about 60 miles northwest of Orlando, Florida, was believed to be the state's first case of a nonvenomous constrictor killing a child.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Ric Ridgway said the manslaughter by culpable negligence charges reflect a "reckless disregard" that is criminal. The third-degree felony murder charge indicates "the death was not intended. You didn't set out to kill somebody, but it was the result of your behavior."

Individuals can be charged with both counts and go to trial on both counts, but if they're found guilty of both, the court would have to dismiss one of the charges and convict on the other, Ridgway said.

The murder and manslaughter counts carry maximum sentences of 15 years in prison; the child-abuse charge carries a five-year maximum.

Both were held on $35,000 bond each in connection with the charges, which stem from the escape of an albino Burmese python from a glass container inside the couple's home in Oxford. The snake was later found wrapped around the child's lifeless body.

Darnell, who was not Shaiunna's father, discovered the child that morning. Sobbing during a 911 call, he said, "The baby's dead! Our stupid snake got out in the middle of the night and strangled the baby!"

The 8-foot reptile had escaped its enclosure earlier. Darnell said he had put it inside a bag and placed it back into the glass tank. He also put a quilt over the container, tying down the ends. But the python escaped again and headed for the young child's crib.

State wildlife officials said the snake was not properly secured and not registered as a required by state law. The python is considered a "reptile of concern."

Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Carrie Hoeppner said the agency has investigated several complaints involving this family during the past year.

A "couple" of incidents were verified, she said, but she did not disclose details.

Caruthers confirmed that a month ago that deputies responded to a "DCF-type call" at the home. Child abuse and neglect investigators will look into Shaiunna's death, Hoeppner said.

Darnell was arrested in May on numerous drug charges. A charge of larceny was dropped against Hare when she was 16.
In May an investigator checked out complaints that the couple used and sold drugs such as meth, cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy. The complaint said that Darnell was intemperate and foul-mouthed, Hare was "high all the time" and the children were being abused.

Darnell now.




According to a death investigation conducted by the state Department of Children and Families, Jaren Hare's mother, Sheryl, was concerned about her daughter's ability to care for Gypsy and another pet snake, Dixie, a smaller Colombian red-tail boa, because neither Jaren nor her boyfriend had jobs or money. FUCKING DRUGGIES WITH CHILDREN :( STUPID COW WASN'T WORRIED WHETHER THEY COULD CARE FOR CHILDREN??

She offered to keep the reptiles at her home, provide a sealed container for the python and buy rats for the snakes to eat — but the offers were rejected. Sheryl Hare is listed as a prosecution witness in the case.

An eerily similar trial resulted in a misdemeanor conviction for a father in 2002.

In that case, a Pennsylvania judge decided that snake keeper Robert Mountain was guilty of misdemeanor child endangerment but not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the death of his 8-year-old daughter. The girl was strangled by the father's 11-foot-long pet python, Moe, who escaped a homemade tank.

MOTHER OF GOD!
The child, left alone when the father went to work and her mother went to buy them lunch, was killed as she sat on the floor watching cartoons. The mother received probation in exchange for testifying against the father.

(07-09-2011, 03:41 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [color=#FFD700]Florida
they have since had another baby. she has had 3 children removed from her custody.


Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Carrie Hoeppner said the agency has investigated several complaints involving this family during the past year.

A "couple" of incidents were verified, she said, but she did not disclose details.

Caruthers confirmed that a month ago that deputies responded to a "DCF-type call" at the home.

For the first time since she was killed, her baby crib was wheeled into the courtroom as evidence. Then the glass container that the pet python was kept in.

Prosecutors said the girl's mother, Jaren Hare and her boyfriend Charles Darnell, failed to protect the toddler by not locking that glass snake cage.

They had just a quilt fastened on top.

Defense attorneys said the snake had always been around the couple's children. They said the pet Burmese Python was no different than a family dog.

Investigators said the snake was severely malnourished and could have seen the little girl as a source of food. She had several bite marks on her body when rescuers arrived.

Photo of quilted snake aquarium and the baby crib shown at killer python trial in Sumter County. (Orlando Sentinel) July 12, 2011)



BUSHNELL — The pet python that strangled a 2-year-old toddler in her crib apparently tried to eat the child, a deputy medical examiner said today as testimony concluded in the unusual manslaughter trial.

The jury panel of two men and four women are expected to begin deliberating Thursday.