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Can you imagine finding a snake in the baby crib? How about a snake in crib, with a baby in it!!!! That is exactly what a mom in New York discovered when she was checking on her screaming baby. She lifted her child up to find out what was wrong when the snake fell off of her leg. As soon as the snake was off the baby stopped crying. Just imagine if that thing was on the baby's neck or something. This is just like a nightmare to me. Here is the story I saw on it:

A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter's leg as the baby slept in a crib.

Cari Abatemarco of upstate Troy says she was visiting family in Brentwood last week when her baby's cries woke her one night. She tells Newsday that she found a snake wrapped around her daughter's leg.


Abatemarco says she lifted her daughter and the snake fell off. A relative removed the snake from the crib and placed it in a bucket until animal control officers arrived.


The reptile has been identified as a California king snake, a non-venomous snake that's not indigenous to the region.


Abatemarco says her family doesn't keep snakes as pets. Officials say they don't know where the snake came from.