Snake handler Tex Tillis said the two-year-old
girl's mother woke at 3:00 am on Saturday to find the six foot reptile attached
to her child as they lay in bed in Lismore, about 370 miles north of Sydney.
"She saw three coils of what looked
like a snake around her baby's arm. She naturally freaked, but with presence of
mind... she went for what she thought was the snake's head," Mr Tillis
told AFP on Monday.
But in the dark, the mother grabbed the snake below
the its head, meaning when the animal panicked it had enough room to attack.
"It immediately started to constrict the
baby's arm and to bite the baby," he said.
"The mother then very, very courageously...
pulled the snake off the baby."
Mr Tillis said the mother did not know the snake
was non-venomous when she ripped it off her child and flung it into the corner
of the room.
The toddler was taken to hospital but suffered only
three superficial wounds, said MrTillis, adding that he later took the reptile
to visit the child and her mother, who named it Cecil.
Source: AFP
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