Snake Death Trial

[Lady Cop]

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.

News13
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.

[Carsman]

Holy shit- fuck- piss!!!

They should put those two asswipes in that SNAKES cage!!

It has been said Baez is looking for a new client now, these two shits are right up his alley!

[Lady Cop]

why in hell do people with small children need to keep dangerous "pets"? big fucking status symbol for druggies. they had a pit bull also.
they made the police get a warrant to get the 2 snakes out of house!

July 2, 2009

The intruders can grow up to 26 feet and weigh more than 200 pounds. Their muscular coils can strangle everything from large animals to an entire ecosystem. Once they were unwanted pets. Now thousands of them are here.

They've infested the Everglades. They threaten native birds and mammals. They've taken on Florida's natural predator, alligators, and tried to swallow one whole.

Now, one of the giant snakes has killed a 2-year-old girl.

Shaiunna Hare was strangled Wednesday by the family's pet albino Burmese python, according to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies say the nearly 8-foot, 6-inch yellow-tinged snake escaped its enclosure at night, slithered into her room, wrapped itself around her as she lay in her crib, repeatedly bit her and squeezed her to death.


link
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafet...015026.ece






imagine her terror :(

[Lady Cop]

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.

[Carsman]

Those fuckin SNAKES belong in the jungle, not in anyones home!

You can't blame the SNAKE, it is just doing what it was born to do.

[koko]

[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.

about the 3 children removed from her custody: I'm assuming one of those three is the baby they've had since Shaiunna was killed, but were the other two living in the house at the time?

DCF investigations: would they not have done a walk thru of the house during these investigations? seems to me like those snakes would be hard to miss, even in a makeshift tank. If they did see the snakes, wouldn't they want to also see their registration?


idiots like this make me hate people

[Lady Cop]

BUSHNELL — Jury section is under way this morning in the trial of a Sumter County couple charged with manslaughter and child neglect in the 2009 death of a 2-year-old girl strangled to death by a pet python.

The accused, Jaren Hare, mother of the toddler, Shaianna Hare, and Hare's boyfriend Charles "Jason" Darnell, rejected a plea bargain.
On Monday, both Hare and Darnell told the judge they rejected an offer that would have required them to plead guilty to manslaughter.

The offer would have meant nine years in prison for both of them. The couple risks three times that amount of time in prison by going to trial.

Judge William Hallman was starting with 21 prospective jurors, quizzing them about pretrial publicity and news accounts of the incident. Some prospective jurors' eyes widened as they learned that the case they may decide involves a python that killed a child.

[Neo]

Wish I could be a juror in a case like this, dumb fucks, sadly our current justice system can't provide sufficient punishment to assholes like this, I feel they really need to suffer.

[ramseycat]

This is disgusting. What a horrible way for that baby girl to die. I hope these idiots are found guilty and get the max.

Oh and I hate snakes. There is no reason to have a pet snake. Ever.

[Neo]

Death by snake pit anyone?

[Lady Cop]

fat druggie fuckers in court today. they're out on bond right now, so they weren't brought in cuffed and shackled.

[Lady Cop]

July 12, 2011
Orlando Sentinel
BUSHNELL — Assistant State Attorney Pete Magrino, during his opening statement in the killer python trial this morning, called the snake that strangled a 2-year-old girl "an instrument of death."

But "those two adult defendants are responsible for the unlawful death of Shaianna Hare," Magrino said, pointing at Charles "Jason" Darnell, 34, and the toddler's mother, Jaren Hare, 21, who showed little emotion during the prosecutor's remarks.

Darnell's lawyer, J. Rhiannon Arnold of Orlando, provided an alternative view, describing the child's death as "a terrible accident…that, with Monday morning quarterbacking, seems like it could have been prevented." YES IT COULD HAVE ASSHOLE. Hare's lawyer Ismael Solis Jr. of Groveland also called it a terrible accident.

A panel of six jurors will decide the case.

Prosecutors argue that Darnell and Hare acted with reckless disregard for the safety of the little girl, who was killed on July 1, 2009, by an 8-foot-6-inch Burmese pet python named Gypsy.

Darnell and Hare are being tried together. If convicted of involuntary manslaughter, third-degree murder and child neglect as charged, the couple could receive as many as 35 years in prison.

Magrino outlined his view that Darnell and Hare failed to protect the child from the snake, which had previously escaped its tank.

In her opening statement, Arnold tried to distance Darnell from Hare, pointing out that both the snake and the child were hers, not his. She also insisted Gypsy was docile.

"This snake was no different than a family dog," she said. "While that could seem strange…some people like cats, some people like dogs. Some people have rabbits, some people have hamsters."

Solis, meanwhile, said Hare, who was 19 when Shaianna was killed, had owned the snake since she was 14. She and Darnell often took the python for a ride in the car and Gypsy rode in the front seat with Hare.

"The snake is like a little puppy to her," Solis said. MAINLY BECAUSE SHE IS A DRUG-ADDLED MORON. let's hope this jury is a little smarter than other florida juries. say, maybe as smart as the snake.

[BlueTiki]

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . . "

"Gypsy was forced to perform fellatio on Charles and then, because of years of sexual abuse, rode silently in the car with Jaren . . . quietly, peaceably. Pretending that life was normal."

"The state will not be able to provide witnesses that would describe Gypsy as anything but a loving pet. Sure Gypsy is cold-blooded, as the state contends. But for goodness sake . . . she was born a reptile!"

[Neo]

Hope these two fat fucks rot.

[Duchess]

How do you let a snake kill your baby. Jesus Christ.

Why am I in this thread. I have no fuckin' idea.

I'm finally getting a better understanding of why seemingly "together" people can go off. I'd like to wipe all the stupid, irresponsible people off the face of the earth.

[Lady Cop]

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.


there were no doors on rooms inside home. the snake was kept 12 feet from baby's crib.

July 12, 2011

BUSHNELL — The grandmother of Shaianna Hare, the toddler strangled in her crib by a pet python in July 2009, testified today that she begged her daughter not to keep the 8-foot-6-inch snake in the house because its container did not have a secure lid.

Sheryl Hare of Weirsdale in Marion County said she so feared for the safety of her tiny granddaughter that she also offered to buy the snake from her daughter, Jaren Hare, 21, for $500 and suggested that they put a plywood lid over the 200-gallon snake tank and anchor the lid with cement blocks.

"We've got dogs," Hare said when asked why she was concerned about the albino Burmese python escaping its tank. "I don't trust the dog, I don't the cat, I don't trust even the snake, no matter how tame they are. I wouldn't even trust a rabbit or anything, even a chicken. My chickens have chased me."

[Lady Cop]

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.

[Lady Cop]

this is just in, i am waiting for details and sentencing info.
edit to add: The couple remains behind bars at the Sumter County Jail as they await their sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 24.
Bushnell, Florida -- It took a jury of six a little more than two hours of deliberations to find 34-year-old Charles Darnell and 21-year-old Jaren Hare guilty on all counts against them.

Each was found guilty of manslaughter, third degree murder and child neglect in the death of Hare's 2-year-old daughter Shaiunna who was killed after she was strangled by the family's pet python.



BOO HOO HOO

[BlueTiki]

Gee . . . now that wasn't so hard, was it?

Accident = manslaughter.

Paying attention Anthony jurors?

[Lady Cop]

the two morons will be sentenced today.
The child's biological father, Joseph Gilkerson of Leesburg, may address the court.