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Woman claims she gave birth to a snake

Now at nine years, the 'child' is a full grown python, still staying at home with mom

Difficult economic times call for extreme measures. A motherly, average-sized woman lovingly cuddling her nine-year old child in her semi-rural compound does not raise anybody’s eyebrows.

Except when the 'child' is a 30-foot python coiling around her, feeling her all over to get the motherly warmth that it has apparently been used to for all of its life.

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