Jury renders a guilty verdict in python death of two year old

A Sumter County jury found 21-year-old mother, Jaren Hare and her live-in boyfriend, 34-year-old Charles “Jason” Darnell guilty today of manslaughter, third-degree murder and child neglect. They each face 35 years in prison. Authorities say an 8-foot-6-inch albino Burmese python wrapped itself around 2-year-old Shianna Hare’s head on July 1st, 2009. The testimony revealed the snake had not been fed for a month before the attack. The Defense attorney argued the death was an accident and there was no way to know that the tame pet would kill a child.