Copperhead Snake Coiled Up In Toys Bites Toddler, Mother Issues Warning

A venomous snake hiding in toys bit a Tennessee toddler on her feet, leaving the child "in a lot of pain."

The 20-month-old girl walked up to her toys that were placed on the back porch right outside the door and began screaming in pain. The parents soon realized the baby was bitten on the foot by a Copperhead Snake and rushed her to the hospital. The toddler was recovering.

Speaking to NBC-affiliated television station WBIR-TV on Friday, the girl’s mother, Foust, said, "Emmy Joe, my baby, walked up to where her toys were and started screaming. My babysitter looked and said she saw a snake."

"She was vomiting, just in a lot of pain. I was holding her, just consoling her, trying to get calm down," Foust recalled.

The girl’s father then found the reptile coiled up in the toys.

Issuing a warning to other parents to be careful, she added, "It was right on our back porch. Right when we stepped outside. It could’ve happened to anybody. We no longer keep any of their toys on the back porch. Nothing is on there."

"I think people think right now since it’s cold outside they’re not out and they’re not moving but they are. I mean, this was a cold day when this happened," Foust told the television station.

The incident comes a month after a 5-year-old boy made a miraculous recovery after a snake bite left him paralyzed and in a coma in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Nischit Gowda accidentally stepped on an Indian krait while entering his residence and slipped into a coma on the way to the hospital. He soon became completely paralyzed and was put on life support. Thanks to the doctors’ efforts, the boy slowly regained consciousness and recovered five weeks later. The hospital also collaborated with a crowdfunding platform and collected $5,500 for his treatment.