Python found wrapped around baby`s foot in apartment

Police say a 2-foot-long ball python slithered its way into an Illinois apartment and wrapped itself around the foot of a sleeping 1-year-old boy and bit him on his left foot. Mattoon Police Department Deputy Chief Jason Taylor said the boy`s parents were awakened by the child`s noises to find the snake attacking their son about 11 p.m., the Mattoon Journal-Gazette amp; Times-Courier reported. The father, Devin Winans, used a blanket to pull the python off the child, and his mother took the boy to a health center for treatment of a bite mark, bruise and scratches, the newspaper reported. Investigators believe the python escaped from a neighboring apartment within the building, Taylor said. Police have not been able to find the owner. More