Teenage mom moves in with older boyfriend who owns a python. Brings toddler along. In July, the python gets out of its cage in the middle of the night and strangles 2-year old Shaiunna Hare. One can’t help but wonder – who’s mom going to sue?
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Catherine Durkin Robinson is a “feminist mother of twins” and a political blogger, working under the title Out in Left Field.
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2009.