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Boy, 4, bitten by snake at North Carolina day care as family learns staff never called 911: reports
A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was bitten by a copperhead snake at a North Carolina day care playground — with the child’s family later learning that the facility never called 911, according to local reports.
The child was playing near a sandbox at the New Beginnings Child Enrichment Center , in Stony Point on Thursday when the venomus serpent bit his left hand, causing the boy’s fingers to swell,
The boy’s family claimed they were initially told the child had only suffered a splinter or broken hand.
A worker at the center killed the snake following the attack.
Brook Cooper, the boy’s aunt, said it wasn’t until the boy’s family got to the day care that they were told the truth.
“The director got up and said he got snakebit. My first thought was, why didn’t they call 911? My second thing was like, do the other parents even know?” Cooper told local outlets.
What’s worse, Copper alleged that the day care never called 911 about the snake bite, and that it was the child’s guardian who rushed him to the hospital for treatment.
Emergency services in Alexander County confirmed to local outlets that they never received a call from the day care.
