Copperhead Snake Caught On Video Biting Texas Schoolgirl In Backyard, Victim Hospitalized

A high school cheerleader was bitten by a copperhead snake while she was practicing routines in the backyard of her home In Texas last week.

Paris Montgomery was recording a video of herself brushing up of her skills when she stepped on what she thought was a stick.

“I was about to go tumble on my trampoline, and I always video myself tumbling, and I was just videoing, and then I was taking my shoes off, and I stepped on a snake and it bit me on the foot,” she told Fox owned-and-operated television station KRIV.

"Something just started hurting. I didn't know it was a snake,” she added. The girl started limping to her mother and it started swelling up really quick.

“When she first came to me, she said, ‘Mom, I think something was in my shoe, or I got poked by a stick’, and so I didn’t really think it was that urgent until it started swelling. Then I thought maybe a bee stung on her, so I went and got some baking soda and put on it, and it kept getting worse, then wondered if maybe it was a poisonous spider, because I thought it was something in her shoe, because all she remembered was taking her shoe off and it hurting,” Tracy, her mother, told the channel.

When it continued to swell, the girl was rushed to Texas Children’s Hospital.

“When we were trying to tell the doctor what happened, she said, ‘I have it on video’ and that’s when we zoomed it in and saw it was a snakebite. Even when she saw it, she said ‘there’s no way a snake bit me and I didn’t know it’, and I’m like, it’s on video,” Tracy added. The girl was administered anti-venom.

“The swelling went down a lot after two or three doses of it. Paris says she is a little scared to go back to her yard, where it all happened, but her dad cleaned up the area to help protect her. She says she’ll be more aware than ever before,” the mother said. The girl was recovering.